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In a sensitive economy in which growth is slowing enough that recession fears are high, every single economic report is given a very close look.
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The thought of negative interest rates in the United States is almost impossible to imagine. Now a paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is pointing out how and where negative...
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Total U.S. student loan debt is more than five times higher than it was in 2013 and the average loan per borrower has nearly tripled. Who are these borrowers and will they repay?
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Sometimes there is a situation where bad news is good news in the financial markets. After the first contraction was seen in manufacturing this week, it turns out that services sector is slowing down...
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24/7 Wall St. routinely checks the GDPNow estimate from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Nowcast from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on Wednesday released results of its quarterly survey of energy industry executives. All is not well in the oil and gas patch.
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St. Louis Fed President James Bullard explains why he voted against Wednesday's rate cut and the Fed pumps another $75 billion into the repo market.
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Along with Wednesday's announcement of cut to the fed funds rate, Fed Chair Jerome Powell also committed to injecting cash into the central bank's repurchase (repo) facility. That's not a long-term...
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The Federal Reserve's open market committee on Wednesday cut the federal funds rate by another quarter point. Not everyone was happy with that choice.
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The odds of a September 18 FOMC meeting rate cut seemed to be in the bag during the volatility of August and September. But it has become more difficult to forecast the Federal Reserve's next move,...
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With another round of Presidential candidate debates on the docket, it’s time to talk about deficits. Realistically, it seems no one in Washington, D.C. has any great plans about how to deal with...
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Not everyone agrees that a recession is imminent, nor that the next recession will be much more than what economists call a "garden variety" recession.
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Each month's report on durable goods orders can be very volatile due to the nature of the big-ticket items. Durable goods in any given month can look stellar in a crummy economy or they can look...
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday at the Challenges for Monetary Policy annual symposium.
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If the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee decision on interest rates at the end of July wasn’t strong enough, there is another chance to evaluate the same data from that time all...
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