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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 5-18-2015 Economic data for the week was mixed, with weaker-than-expected retail sales numbers, decent employment metrics and conflicting sentiment data from consumers and small businesses. Global equities gained on the week, with international stocks outperforming U.S. names—due to … Continue reading
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Tagged 10-year Treasury, 1st Quarter GDP, Bank of England, Crude oil, crude oil prices, DJIA, ECB, Economic, economic data, economic growth, Economic Update, Emerging Markets, Employment, Europe, Fed, Federal Reserve, fixed income, FOMC, France, GDP, Germany, Government, Greece, IMF, Inflation, interest rate, interest rates, Italy and Spain, Janet Yellen, Jobless Claims, LSA, oil prices, Q/E, S&P500, unemployment rate, Yahoo!
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Chart of the Week: Is QE Driving Economic Growth?
LSA would like to offer a special thanks to renowned economist Brian Wesbury for taking the time to update us on his thoughts of his self-coined ‘plow horse’ economy. In this update, Wesbury addresses the notion that, in our current … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Wesbury, economic growth, Fed, Federal Reserve, monetary base, money market mutual fund
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 5-12-2015 Economic reports last week were led by a decent ISM non-manufacturing report, low levels of jobless claims and a decent but unexceptional employment situation release—uninspiring enough to keep markets hoping for continued easy Fed policy beyond June. … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Commodities, CPI, crude oil prices, DJIA, ECB, Economic, economic data, economic growth, Economic Update, Emerging Markets, Employment, Europe, Fed, Federal Reserve, fixed income, FOMC, GDP, Government, Inflation, interest rate, Janet Yellen, Jobless Claims, oil prices, Portfolio, Real Estate, S&P500, unemployment rate, Update
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 5-04-2015 The economic picture last week was colored by a poor U.S. GDP release for the first quarter, as well as acknowledgment by the FOMC of slowed conditions. However, other data, such as the ISM and Chicago PMI came in mixed … Continue reading
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Tagged Commodities, Crude oil, crude oil prices, DJIA, Employment, Fed, Federal Reserve, fixed income, GDP, Inflation, interest rate, Japan, Jobless Claims, LSA, oil prices, Real Estate, S&P500, unemployment rate
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Fed Update
Fed Note: The FOMC meeting ended with little fanfare as theories continued to swirl about surrounding the timing of the Fed’s choice to raise interest rates. Will it be June or will it be September? Or, will it be later? The Fed didn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged economic data, economic growth, Fed, FOMC, Inflation, interest rate, interest rates, Jobless Claims, LSA, oil prices, unemployment rate
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Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 4-13-2015 Economic data was light and results mixed last week with the ISM services report coming in a bit weaker, but jobs reports—JOLTs and claims—better than consensus. The FOMC minutes generally read as expected, with differing views on the strength of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Commodities, DJIA, economic data, economic growth, Economic Update, Emerging Markets, Eurozone, Fed, LSA, oil prices, Retail Sales, S&P500
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Chart of the Week: Fed Not Impatient
Chart of the Week This week’s charts are Dot Plots, a visual depiction of the expectations FOMC meeting participants hold of where the federal funds rate should be in different points in the future. The dropping of the term ‘patient’ … Continue reading
Fed Note
Fed Note: The January FOMC meeting ended without incident, and without major change in strategy or language, as expected. There are four new FOMC voting members this year, but this didn’t change the overall tone (no dissenters this time). In … 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 9-15-2014 Aside from the FOMC meeting—where language was scrutinized but little actually changed—the economic week was mixed. Several regional economic indexes came in with positive results, inflation was virtually unchanged and housing results were a bit disappointing relative … Continue reading
Weekly Economic Update
Economic Update 9-15-2014 In a slower week for economic data, results came in tempered to positive (retail sales being a more important release), but included no major surprises. Geopolitically, the highlight originated from a developed market this time, as polls … Continue reading
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Tagged economic data, Fed, fixed income, FOMC, interest rate, interest rates, U.S. dollar, Yahoo!
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Fed Note
Fed Note: The Federal Reserve met today and proceeded according to the recent plan. The taper continued, with Treasury/MBS purchases being wound down from $35 bil./mo. to $25 bil./mo. At this pace, QE Fed buys should end by October. Other … Continue reading
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