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What happens when you have rising prices but weaker-than-expected retail sales? This is where more of the stagflation argument comes into play.
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Yesterday we had warned that the financial markets were bracing for the inflation card when the latest Consumer Price Index was released. That has now come to pass.
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On Wednesday, the markets will get a look at January's Consumer Price Index, which is the direct measure of consumer inflation. The inflation reading likely will be hotter than normal.
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24/7 Wall St. wanted to provide a brief outlook of this last week's economic reports and some foreshadowing for the week ahead.
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When the financial markets are in panic mode, it's hard to get investors and economists to pay attention to lower-impact economic reports.
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The Federal Reserve does not usually have the chairman and regional Fed presidents make comments around each market sell-off.
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It appears that the market's direction will be dragged up and down based on financial and economic factors that are tightly related.
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Inflationary pressures seem to be building and that could push prices higher into 2018. Higher inflation is also expected to justify further interest rate hikes.
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After a strong reading on the Producer Price Index for November, the U.S. Department of Labor has reported a strong reading for the Consumer Price Index in that month as well.
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If the Federal Reserve can get inflation up to the 2.0% to 2.5% target, then it can easily justify its quest to keep normalizing interest rates with rate hikes.
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It was just on Tuesday that the markets had to deal with a hot inflationary number that was stronger than what had been seen in several years. But consumer readings were far less hot than the...
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The Federal Reserve has had the same target range on inflation for years now. Unfortunately, that target has been rather elusive until recently.
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The Department Labor is set to release its Producer Price Index on Tuesday and will then release the Consumer Price Index on Wednesday. Here's what to look for.
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After a long period of stagnation, the measure for worker productivity is back on the up. And at the same time, and for the better, wages are still rising.
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Wages increased handily in the third quarter of this year, but other employment-related costs contributed to the gains as well.
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