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The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago releases its nationally focused Chicago Fed National Activity Index each month, and the reading for August was negative, after having been positive in July.
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Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve’s FOMC have voted to leave interest rates unchanged. That keeps federal funds at the target rate of 0.25% to 0.50%. What matters here is that the jawboning for...
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There is still a massive amount of sovereign debt trading around the planet with negative yields. Yep, you get less money back than you invested.
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The Bank of Japan has announced a policy overhaul in its latest efforts to stimulate the economy.
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The FOMC meeting is key because many of the regional Federal Reserve branch presidents and Fed Chair Janet Yellen have been jawboning about the need to raise interest rates.
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The Federal Reserve this week could make it harder for more than 9 million Americans to pay their credit card bills next month.
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Tuesday's economic reports included the September Nonmanufacturing Business Outlook Survey for the region of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
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August's Consumer Price Index contained a bit more inflation at the consumer level than the Producer Price Index did at the wholesale level.
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The Philly Fed Survey signaled that manufacturing conditions continued to improve, with positive indicators for general activity and new orders increasing from their August numbers.
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If you haven’t noticed the move higher in bond yields, you might want to pay attention and see what has happened on the long-end of the Treasury yield curve. This has been driven largely by fears...
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Atlanta Fed presidentDennis Lockhart has announced his intention to step down from his position at the Fed, effective February 28, 2017.
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Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard addressed the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Monday and outlined what she called “the contours of today’s economy that will be particularly important”...
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Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart told an audience at a conference in the city that "financial markets seem to be very sensitive to remarks of Fed speakers at the moment." Hard to argue with that.
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If anyone needs an explanation about why the stock market was soft on Friday, look no further than more Federal Reserve jawboning about the ability and desire to raise interest rates.
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The Federal Reserve on Thursday released its preliminary report on consumer credit for the month of July 2016. On a seasonally adjusted basis, consumer credit rose 5.8% in the month, up from 4.8%...
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