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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 2-16-2015 In a moderately quiet week for economic releases, retail sales disappointed last month on a headline level due to lower gasoline prices. However, price recovery in recent weeks may have weighed on fickle consumer sentiment. Global equity … Continue reading
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Tagged Europe, gasoline prices, Greece, Grexit, interest rates, oil prices, Russia, stabilization, Ukraine
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 1-26-2015 A light week in U.S. economic data was dominated by housing numbers, which came in a little better than expected. The bigger news came from Europe, where the ECB announced a large quantitative easing program of … Continue reading
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Tagged ECB, Emerging Markets, Europe, quantitative easing, Yahoo!
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 1-22-2015 In a full week of economic releases, retail sales were somewhat disappointing (although cheap gasoline exacerbated the poor result), inflation declined dramatically due to cheaper energy costs, while sentiment improved to much higher levels. Domestic equity markets … Continue reading
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Tagged eastern Europe, Europe, European Court of Justice, market sentiment, Yahoo!
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 11-17-2014 Economic figures last week were a bit better than expected, highlighted by a slight positive surprise in retail sales and decent sentiment surveys, which continued to post readings at high levels. Equity markets were just slightly higher … Continue reading
Fed Update
Fed Update In their meeting that just concluded, the FOMC formally ended ‘the taper’ effective this coming month-end, closing a chapter of multiple quantitative easing programs totaling $3 trillion. This was widely anticipated, though, so markets didn’t react too strongly … Continue reading
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Tagged China, economic growth, Employment, Europe, Fed, FOMC, Inflation, Janet Yellen, MBS, Outlook, Portfolios, Taper, unemployment rate
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 10-20-2014 The important economic releases of the week were largely lackluster, with retail sales, and several regional fed surveys underwhelming, but not terrible. Perhaps more importantly, input from Europe and the Far East was more of a concern … Continue reading
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Tagged 10-year Treasury, Crude oil, Europe, International equities, OPEC, review of bank asset quality, U.S., world markets, Yahoo!
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 10-5-2014 Economic reports were mixed in terms of improvement, but continue to show strength. The highest-profile report of the week, the government employment situation, came in much stronger than expected and featured an unemployment rate under 6%. Equity … Continue reading
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Tagged dollar index, Europe, foreign currencies, oil prices, stronger dollar, unemployment rate, Yahoo!
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 9-8-2014 Economic data for the week came in fairly strong, highlighted by the ISM manufacturing report, which is closely watched by markets. However, the August employment situation report for August was a bit disappointing. S. stocks gained … Continue reading
Weekly Economic Update
Data was mixed on the week, with retail sales disappointing, but surveys and sentiment still decent on the manufacturing/small business end. Equity markets deflected geopolitical concerns and gained, as did bond prices with interest rates falling a fraction of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd quarter, Europe, interest rates, oil prices, sentiment
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update It was a light week for economic data domestically, and little new geopolitical news. Equity markets sold off on the week, helped in no way by the troubles of the second largest bank in Portugal, which was having … Continue reading
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Tagged Argentina, Banco Espirito Santo, Bloomberg Commodities Index, Brazil, Dow Jones-UBS, economic data, Europe, Portugal
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update: Economic data was mixed, but survey responses showed stronger positive sentiment and housing appears to show some improvement. The final 1st Quarter GDP release was amended downward, but this was largely blamed on weather effects and appears to be … Continue reading
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Tagged 1st Quarter GDP, Bank of England, Commodities, Europe, Iraq, sentiment
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update In a slow week for economic data, stats like retail sales were weaker, but PPI also came in flat, which appeared to temper core inflation concerns from prior weeks. Equity markets were largely off, due to increased concerns … Continue reading
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Tagged China, crude oil prices, Europe, Hillshire Brands, inflation concerns, Iraq, Japan, Merck, oil prices, PPI, Priceline, Retail Sales, Tyson Foods, World Cup
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