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Jon OggIt is no secret now that interest rates have risen. Long-term Treasury yields and even intermediate Treasury yields are now perhaps even starting to normalize even with Ben Bernanke and the...
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Jon OggSomething may not be adding up properly with the U.S. Labor Department numbers. Perhaps it is just a lagging effect of CPI versus PPI, as we frequently have discussed, or the boys and girls...
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ThinkstockThe world of gold and silver has been turned upside down. The market fears that Ben Bernanke’s quantitative easing under the Federal Reserve will end sooner rather than later, and that...
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ThinkstockDespite higher energy costs, inflation still seems to be in check. The U.S. Labor Department released on Wednesday morning the Producer Price Index (PPI) for the month of July. The headline...
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Jon OggThe stock market and bond market are trying and trying to figure out how to price in the eventual tapering effects of quantitative easing. Ultimately, these markets will both have to price in...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsFriday’s Labor Department report on the employment situation is now out. July’s unemployment rate fell to 7.4% from 7.6% in June, which was under the Bloomberg...
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courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveThe Federal Reserve statement from the July FOMC meeting has been released. Ben Bernanke and the team inside the Fed are looking for the economy to continue improving,...
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ThinkstockADP has released its monthly payrolls report ahead of Friday’s key unemployment and private sector payrolls report from the U.S. Labor Department. The news looks good on the surface, as...
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Jon OggWith all of the talk about quantitative easing and interest rates and even a coming replacement for Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve, very little discussion has been given to a methodology...
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Jon OggThe days of Ben Bernanke as the chairman of the Federal Reserve are looking shorter and shorter ahead of his term expiration in 2014. President Obama has said that Bernanke is likely ready to...
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ThinkstockEsther George, president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, is the most vocal voting member of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). At each FOMC meeting, she is...
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courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is testifying in his semiannual report to the Congress on Wednesday. The stock, bond, commodity and currency markets are trying to...
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ThinkstockEsther George of the Kansas City Federal Reserve told Fox Business News that it is time to start the end of the Federal Reserve’s bond buying program. While unemployment is high, she...
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ThinkstockJeffrey Lacker of the Richmond Federal Reserve is considered very much a hawkish Fed president, but his comments on Wednesday are helping the stock market. After Ben Bernanke’s comments...
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Ben Bernanke’s post-FOMC comments on bond tapering this week may have been misinterpreted, or maybe the market reaction will prove to be correct. What has happened is that the markets are...
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