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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.
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.
24/7 Wall St. wanted to provide a brief outlook of this last week's economic reports and some foreshadowing for the week ahead.
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...