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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe October Employment Situation Report from the Labor Department is showing that the government shutdown had almost no real impact to the private sector jobs market....
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ThinkstockLong live the trends of central bank easing! The European Central Bank (ECB) just delivered on what was being hoped for, and that is a formal interest rate cut. The ECB lowered the...
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ThinkstockIn an interview with CNBC Monday morning, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said that “cumulative progress” in addressing the U.S. unemployment rate has been good under the Fed’s...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Federal Reserve may have slashed the Fed funds rate as low as humanly possible. After all, how can you beat zero percent (actually targeted 0.00% to 0.25%)? The answer is with...
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courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveSaying that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) it sees improvement in U.S. economic activity and in the U.S. labor market since beginning its $85 billion asset...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department may be late this month with the unemployment and nonfarm payrolls report, but the ADP payrolls data is giving a weaker-than-expected look at the jobs market. ADP...
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ThinkstockThe October 29 to 30 Federal Open Market Committee policy meeting is one which may be a bit of a paradox, or at least one full of irony. It is easy to assume that the FOMC is not going to...
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ThinkstockAs recently as a month ago, the consensus among economists was the Federal Reserve would cut back its $85 billion a month asset purchasing program. The economy appeared to be doing well...
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ThinkstockThe president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Charles Evans, said Monday morning in an interview on CNBC that the recently ended government shutdown has thrown U.S. fiscal policy...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Federal Reserve is supposedly independent of the government, even if running the Fed is a Presidential appointment and requires backing of Congress. It also pays profits back to...
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ThinkstockFirst you saw dismal numbers from the Empire Manufacturing report from the New York Federal Reserve. Now you are getting to a slightly different take from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve...
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For the S&P 500 to reach 2,000, it will need to rise 16% above what is already nearly record territory. The index should make it. Most analysts believe that the Washington settlement will be...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. economy continued to increase at a “modest to moderate pace” according to Wednesday’s release of the Federal Reserve’s October Beige Book. Employment growth, one of the key...
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ThinkstockThe stock market and bond market are both blind to major government economic reports right now due to the federal government shutdown. That may be changing any day, but the reality is that...
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ThinkstockIt is going to be interesting to see exactly what happens with the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet under Janet Yellen. Ben Bernanke has decided to pass the buck down the line for her to...
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