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After all the talk of interest rate hikes and gradually tightening monetary policy from the Federal Reserve, interest rates on the 10-year bond have touched record lows yet again.
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It was just last week that investors learned that all of the major banks were shown to have passed their Federal Reserve stress tests. Now the capital return plans (CCAR) have been approved as well....
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The demand for safe-haven trades is becoming almost zany. It seems unthinkable that there was nearly $10 trillion in sovereign debt with negative yields just a few weeks ago. Now the tally for...
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Have you ever heard that politicians will only give the answers to the questions they want to answer, regardless of the question? It seems that businesses may now be in the same vote. The Federal...
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Manufacturing activity is Texas continues to see pressure as the summer gets off to a start. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has signaled that June’s manufacturing weakness continues despite the...
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The Federal Reserve has finally released the results of the 2016 stress tests. If there is one thing you need to take away from this, it is that all of the nation’s big banks clear the bar for...
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Tuesday, June 21, brought the Federal Reserve's semiannual Monetary Policy Report from Fed Chair Janet Yellen in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported its Business Outlook Survey for the month of June on Thursday morning.
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The decision on interest rates from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has finally been made. As we expected, no rate hike was seen.
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Wednesday's barrage of economic reports included the June reading for the Empire State Manufacturing Survey.
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Wednesday may mark the decision from the Federal Reserve on interest rates, but the morning economic reports brought a last view of wholesale inflation for Janet Yellen and her Fed presidents to...
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If the investing community wanted good news on the reports for industrial production and capacity utilization, they are going to have to search elsewhere.
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If the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ends up voting to hold the target fed funds rate as is, then a potentially embarrassing situation for the Fed could develop.
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A forecast called GDPNow from the Atlanta Federal Reserve calls for 2.5% growth in gross domestic product in the second quarter.
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Stress tests have been set up to investigate the impact a rate hike on the U.S. economy, and if the latest speech made by the Fed is to be taken seriously, the U.S. economy is passing these tests...
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