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Jon OggInvestors have become a bit nervous after a poor January and a rough start to January. Stocks have gone south, and bond yields have come back down from a peak of 3% on the 10-year Treasury and...
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ThinkstockGoldman Sachs and other investment firms warned that the market was getting more and more at risk of a 10% stock market correction, with the caveat that stocks would resume the bull market...
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courtesy of the Federal ReserveThe January 29 FOMC meeting was the last meeting to be under Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. Janet Yellen will be the new Federal Reserve Chairman going forward. The markets...
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The U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council has begun looking at Berkshire Hathaway to determine whether the financial powerhouse is important enough to the global financial system to require...
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The so-called Philly Fed index is out, showing an improvement for January and above expectations. The index has now been positive for eight consecutive months.
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Friday's Employment Situation report from the U.S. Labor Department may have just made investing in bonds safe again. It seems that if interest rates rise, that rise will be very gradual.
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No matter how much cheer there is in an unemployment rate of less than 7%, the figure remains much worse than its needs to be for a complete economic recovery.
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve is out with its minutes from the December FOMC meeting. We generally warn readers that minutes are often the third look at a Fed meeting, but this pertains to the FOMC...
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Janet Yellen has been confirmed by the Senate as the next chair of the Federal Reserve. She will be the first woman to ever hold the position. Her confirmation vote by the Senate was a record --...
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The Federal Reserve's reported balance sheet for the week ending December 25, 2013, was at $4.071 trillion, and the balance on December 25 was $4.074 trillion. A $10 billion per month of tapering...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Open Market Committee just finished what is very likely its last or next to last real decision-making meeting under Ben Bernanke. The long and short of the matter is that...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve is due to start its two-day FOMC meeting to determine whether to taper its bond buying activities under its quantitative easing measure. If the Labor Department’s...
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ThinkstockIt is that time of the year again when Wall Street starts issuing its forecasts for the coming year. We have seen the 2014 outlook from Merrill Lynch this Monday with new observations on...
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ThinkstockThe latest Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s October 29 to 30 FOMC meeting are indicating that tapering the $85 billion per month of bond buying could start in the coming months....
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Jon OggThe deficit is shrinking! Politicians will likely try to spin this as good news, because it sounds better than calling it less-bad. It is not good news when you see just how much money we...
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