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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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There has been a saying for years that productivity competes with unemployment — and productivity is down.
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Inflation remains well short of the Federal Reserve's 2% target, and combined with a first-quarter total compensation increase of 1.9% indicates that U.S. workers are earning enough to cover higher...
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Following an unexpectedly negative Producer Price Index for March, the Consumer Price Index also showed that consumer inflation was weaker than expected for the month.
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Perhaps the increase in China's exports sounds good for the global growth story, but there is more direct observation in U.S. economic data showing why Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve are being...
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This week the economic calendar will bring two readings on the inflation/deflation front: producer prices and consumer prices. Both reports measure prices paid and are released by the U.S. Department...
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It seems that almost every other day now we are getting word of new opinions by various Federal Reserve officials regarding how many rate hikes there should be for 2016.
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In January and February the recession risks for the United States were picking up. Now it looks as though the biggest risks for the U.S. falling back into recession in 2016 have all but vanished.
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Here is where the Fed will have enough ammunition to talk rates higher: the annualized core CPI, sans food and energy, was up 2.3% in February from a year ago. That is versus a 2.2% gain in January.
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Wednesday, March 16, will see four sets of crucial data hitting Wall Street all at the same time. What we see on Wednesday could help determine trends in commodities and bond markets particularly.
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This 50% rally in oil has been met with broad skepticism, flooded with analyst warnings that it will not last.
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has made a revision to its 2015 productivity and unit labor costs figures.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics may have just delivered a stunner of an inflation number.
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