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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.
The Federal Reserve does not usually have the chairman and regional Fed presidents make comments around each market sell-off.
It appears that the market's direction will be dragged up and down based on financial and economic factors that are tightly related.
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.
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.
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.
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...
The Federal Reserve has had the same target range on inflation for years now. Unfortunately, that target has been rather elusive until recently.
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.
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.
Wages increased handily in the third quarter of this year, but other employment-related costs contributed to the gains as well.
When most people think of inflation they might get tricked into thinking that the prices of goods and services all rise across the board. The reality is that inflationary is a basket of prices, so...
Millions of Social Security recipients and retirees will receive a 2% increase in benefits next year, the largest gain since 2012.
Though consumer prices and producer prices have been running below 2% for the most part, it turns out that the prices of imports and exports were both above 2% in the month of August.
After a somewhat disappointing reading on wholesale inflation from the Producer Price Index, now there is at least some positive surprise on the Consumer Price Index for August.