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Today brought news about retail inflation for Joe Public. The U.S. Labor Department has reported its Consumer Price Index for the month of September, and the numbers are looking as though inflation...
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The report on wholesale inflation for the month of September is out and running a bit. The U.S. Labor Department said that the Producer Price Index (PPI) rose by 1.1% on the headline reading, but the...
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The European Central Bank’s outlook was hardly given notice as the world was focused on Ben Bernanke and the FOMC’s new round of quantitative easing. The ECB is on the way down the path of its...
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The U.S. Labor Department has released its reading on wholesale inflation, which the investing community reviews to see where consumer inflation will be a month or two out. The Producer Price Index...
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The president of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, Sandra Pianalto, gave a speech today that pretty much sums up the recent actions taken by the FOMC, of which she is a voting member. In other...
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Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Narayana Kocherlakota is generally considered a deficit and inflation hawk who mostly opposes both economic stimulus and increases in inflation above the Fed’s...
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The Labor Department has reported the level of wholesale inflation measured by the Producer Price Index. The reading for the month of July came in at +0.3% on the headline report, but the core rate...
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The retail inflation reading for the month of June has now been released by the Labor Department. The Consumer Price Index for the month of June came in on a headline basis at 0.0%, and the core...
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The Labor Department’s report on wholesale inflation remains muted. The Producer Price Index for the month of June was up by +0.1% and the core-rate which excludes food and energy was up by...
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By now you have heard all of the fears of the inflation spectre. After printing money, buying up hundreds and hundreds of billions of billions worth of securities, and bailing out the banks and the...
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This Thursday brought many economic reports, none of which are very good for the bulls. The bulls have another worry here as well and that is that the weakness seen here today is not really another...
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In a presentation today, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard that further monetary actions by the Fed’s FOMC had been placed on “pause” as a result of the modest gains in the...
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The Labor Department’s report on producer prices took out some of the inflation fears on Thursday and now we have the reading for the Consumer Price Index for the month of March. The headline...
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If inflation is rising it is not quite so evident in the wholesale inflation data. The Producer Price Index for March was reported as Flat or 0.0% and the core rate which takes out food and energy...
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In a speech this morning in Syracuse, New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley told an audience of local business leaders that while the US economy is doing better, “real economic activity...
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