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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by less in the month of May than Bloomberg had predicted.
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ThinkstockJanet Yellen and the Federal Reserve has announced the results of the June 2015 FOMC meeting. Without surprise is that no interest rate hike was announced. Now, the rest of the details is...
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It can be very dangerous for a Federal Reserve president to speak on the last business day ahead of a holiday, when traders and investors already have their foot out the door.
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24/7 Wall St. has laid out 10 different reasons why the Federal Reserve is unlikely to hike interest rates too far or too fast.
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What are economists and investors supposed to think when inflation remains low, yet consumers just do not really want to buy the goods that drive the economy?
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Market pundits and economists have been predicting a rise in the federal funds rate for quite some time, and the first fed funds rate hike still seems likely to occur in 2015.
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With so many central banks involved in new rounds of quantitative easing, it is important for investors and speculators to consider how gold will act in a rising dollar environment.
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The Labor Department's Consumer Price Index rose slightly more than expected in the month of February.
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ThinkstockWell, like it or not, the Federal Reserve and Janet Yellen have now formally moved the needle to being closer to rate hikes. As many had expected, the Federal Reserve dropped the terms...
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The U.S. Labor Department has released its Producer Price Index (PPI) for the month of February. In short, deflation is here, at least at the producer and wholesale level.
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If you are worried about a rapid rise in interest rates, and sooner than expected, from the Federal Reserve, there sure appears to be at least some breathing room here.
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The U.S. Labor Department has confirmed what most of us have suspected for some time: deflationary pressure from the cost of energy and commodities falling has turned into deflation.
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No matter how you slice it, U.S. home price gains are outpacing inflation.
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Janet Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve, is delivering more good news to the financial markets in her Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.
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So, all those fears about deflation that everyone was worried about in theory, they just might be starting to unfold.
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