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The Producer Price Index represents wholesale inflation — or at least it would if there was some wholesale inflation.
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The Federal Reserve has released its Beige Book for September of 2016. With so many economists, investors and market watchers being concerned about an imminent interest rate hike, this Beige Book...
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That 2.0% to 2.5% inflation target of the Federal Reserve is just proving to be more than elusive. The U.S. Department of Labor has released its consumer price index (CPI) for July, and the monthly...
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Wishing for higher inflation sometimes just feels odd. You have to have higher prices in the future to help with growth, but it means we all have to pay more (and earn more) to buy the same things.
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Not all that long ago, the investing community was being led to believe that the United States never would have to worry about inflation.
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Wednesday may mark the decision from the Federal Reserve on interest rates, but the morning economic reports brought a last view of wholesale inflation for Janet Yellen and her Fed presidents to...
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If the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ends up voting to hold the target fed funds rate as is, then a potentially embarrassing situation for the Fed could develop.
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Import prices rose more than expected in May, which will give the Federal Reserve at least some hope of price increases — and that they were not just tied to oil.
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Switzerland has overwhelmingly rejected a national referendum on a universal basic income. If it had passed, disaster would have loomed for Switzerland’s economy.
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It now appears that the U.S. Senate’s unanimous vote on a bill that would have exposed the Saudi Arabian government to American lawsuits over alleged involvement in the 9/11 attacks was a sham.
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If you are among those who want the Federal Reserve to never raise interest rates again, you might not be pleased about the Minutes of the April 26 to 27 FOMC meeting. This does not of course mean...
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The U.S. Department of Labor has released its April inflation reading at the consumer level. Tuesday’s report was the Consumer Price Index (CPI), came in at 0.4% on the headline report. Reuters...
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It is no secret that the Federal Reserve has had its hands tied on its desire to raise interest rates. Now data has come out that was marginally positive on the wholesale inflation front.
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Thursday's economic reports might have included a very disappointing weekly jobless claims report, but we have now also seen a mixed report on import and export price trends in the month of April.
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Wasn't 2016 supposed to be the year that U.S. interest rates finally began to rise? Now many of the top investment banks have taken down their interest rate forecasts.
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