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In a new research report, the investment strategy team at Credit Suisse is recommending investors look to move out of the deep value stocks that have been so successful and consider stocks in the...
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve is out with its minutes from the December FOMC meeting. We generally warn readers that minutes are often the third look at a Fed meeting, but this pertains to the FOMC...
The Federal Reserve's reported balance sheet for the week ending December 25, 2013, was at $4.071 trillion, and the balance on December 25 was $4.074 trillion. A $10 billion per month of tapering...
ThinkstockThe Federal Open Market Committee just finished what is very likely its last or next to last real decision-making meeting under Ben Bernanke. The long and short of the matter is that...
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve is due to start its two-day FOMC meeting to determine whether to taper its bond buying activities under its quantitative easing measure. If the Labor Department’s...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department is out with what appears to be a stellar unemployment report for November. The good news is that the payrolls were not too far above whisper numbers after a strong...
Jon OggThis Friday will bring the Employment Situation report from the U.S. Labor Department. Ben Bernanke and team at the Federal Reserve have only had to worry about their employment target, since...
ThinkstockIt is that time of the year again when Wall Street starts issuing its forecasts for the coming year. We have seen the 2014 outlook from Merrill Lynch this Monday with new observations on...
ThinkstockThe latest Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s October 29 to 30 FOMC meeting are indicating that tapering the $85 billion per month of bond buying could start in the coming months....
ThinkstockThe European Central Bank (ECB) is considering even more easing than the official rate cut we saw recently. Now there is talk that easing could be taken as far as creating negative rates....
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department released its reading on inflation on Wednesday morning via the Consumer Price Index. Simply put, inflation is running too low and this is going to give Ben...
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe October Employment Situation Report from the Labor Department is showing that the government shutdown had almost no real impact to the private sector jobs market....
ThinkstockLong live the trends of central bank easing! The European Central Bank (ECB) just delivered on what was being hoped for, and that is a formal interest rate cut. The ECB lowered the...
ThinkstockThis Friday we will get to see the October nonfarm payroll number and unemployment rates from the Labor Department. Unfortunately, the tone is going from bad to worse. Last week a report...
ThinkstockIn an interview with CNBC Monday morning, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said that “cumulative progress” in addressing the U.S. unemployment rate has been good under the Fed’s...