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Thinkstock24/7 Wall St. wanted to make an update for its readers about the dual importance of economic reports. It is unemployment that rules the roost in most months, but this week will be an...
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Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker was a continuous voice of dissent on quantitative easing for quite some time. So, it should be no surprise that he is calling for rate hikes from the Federal...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve and Janet Yellen have released their rate and monetary policy for the June 18 FOMC announcement. While inflation was seen ticking up in the CPI report this week, the...
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ThinkstockJames Bullard, President of St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, spoke on Monday in front of a group at the Tennessee Bankers Association Annual Meeting. The speech was titled “How Far Is the...
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ThinkstockThe European Central Bank (ECB) has now done something most of have never seen before. It has adopted its own quantitative easing method by adopting at least a partial negative rate...
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ThinkstockIf you have watched the stock market, bond market and the economy in general for the past five years or so, it will be no surprise that the world’s economies and financial markets are...
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ThinkstockThe FOMC has released the minutes of its April 29 to 30 meeting. We would caution that these minutes cover the announcement by the Federal Reserve from April 30, and we would also stress...
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ThinkstockQuantitative easing has been under a great deal of scrutiny for some time, and the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet keeps growing despite the tapering efforts. The stock market, and the...
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ThinkstockJames Bullard, President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, may have inadvertently caused a small stir in the markets on Friday. After Janet Yellen has been speaking about exceptionally low...
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By International Monetary Fund [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released its updated 2014 to 2015 economic outlook. The good news is that the group has...
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ThinkstockDennis Lockhart, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, gave a speech on Wednesday to the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce (obviously in Miami,...
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ThinkstockJanet Yellen is still in her getting to know you phase of her tenure as Fed chairman. After spooking the markets at the last FOMC meeting on the timing of when interest rates will raise,...
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Jon OggThe pro-Japan quantitative easing trade is coming to an end. At least that is what Credit Suisse has telegraphed in its global equity strategy sector outlook. The firm’s Andrew Garthwaite...
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Jon OggInvestors have become a bit nervous after a poor January and a rough start to January. Stocks have gone south, and bond yields have come back down from a peak of 3% on the 10-year Treasury and...
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Friday's Employment Situation report from the U.S. Labor Department may have just made investing in bonds safe again. It seems that if interest rates rise, that rise will be very gradual.
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