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Jerome Powell is being less dovish than the market and President Trump want him to be. FOMC votes to not cut fed funds rate and is slower than the consensus forecast of rate cuts in 2019.
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Stocks to buy as the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates.
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U.S. stocks were trading higher on Monday as bad-to-less-good economic news has come into play at a time when the markets and economists are trying to factor trade war and tariffs into their mix. The...
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has released its Empire State Manufacturing report for the month of June. While this is just one region, it is viewed as being close to a real-time report that...
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The Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank's model now projects real GDP growth in the second quarter that looks better than prior forecasts but is still shy of the first quarter,
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The net wealth of households rose by almost 5% during the first quarter of 2019. This means that all that stock market selling and volatility at the end of 2018 that ate into household wealth was...
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How businesses react to tariffs, trade war impact from China, Trump trade policy
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The monthly ADP National Employment Report gets to act as a preliminary view for the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment Situation Report.
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on Tuesday, at the Conference on Monetary Policy Strategy, Tools and Communications Practices.
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It's too soon to be looking for an economy-crushing recession, but the reality is that growth looks like it should be a lot slower in the second quarter of 2019 and perhaps later in the year as well.
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April saw slower growth than March as declines were seen in the production-related indicators of Chicago Fed National Activity Index.
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Economic release by the Federal Reserve, outside of the formal FOMC interest rate changes, may be boring on the surface. The flip-side to that is that the Fed’s economic reports are also very...
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This has been a confusing and somewhat puzzling year. After so much negativity and caution heading into the start of the year, the economy managed to eke out a gain of 3.2% gross domestic product in...
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What the market is going to want here is a solid jobs number that is also "not too solid" because the market does not want Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and other members of the Fed to return...
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The total value of bonds and notes in Europe with negative interest rates is back on the rise as its economy continues to trickle lower, and that is a problem.
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