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Fed Note: The FOMC completed their September meeting, with an outcome of no interest rate policy change as expected, but there was something a little different to announce. This was a more ‘important’ meeting, being one of the four per … Continue reading
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Fed Note
Fed Note: No policy action was taken at today’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting, which was the unanimously expected result. The FOMC statement acknowledged stronger labor activity and housing, while also the negatives of slowing general economic growth as well as continued weak … Continue reading
Posted in Economic News
Tagged business cycle, capex spending, corporate spending, CPI, Crude oil, crude oil prices, economic data, economic growth, Economic Update, Employment, Esther George, Fed sentiment, Federal Reserve, FOMC, FOMC Meeting Minutes, GDP, Government, headline cpi, Home Sales, Inflation, interest rates, Japan, labor indicators, labor markets, MSCI Europe, negative rates, rate hike, recession, Yellen
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Fed Note
Fed Note The December meeting was again slated to be ‘the one’, as in the meeting where interest rate policy changed for the first time in a decade and almost exactly seven years after the fed funds rate was cut … Continue reading
Posted in Economic News
Tagged banks, bonds, clients, credit, december rate hike, economic growth, employmnet, equities, Fed, Federal Reserve, financial advisor, FOMC, Inflation, interest rate, Janet Yellen, pace of rates, rate hike, rates, tightening, US dollar, zero interest rate policy
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Fed Note
Fed Note: Fed policy remains at the center of investment market focus, but the October meeting wasn’t expected to be a blockbuster one. It didn’t disappoint, as there were no changes, but did leave December open as a possibility. The FOMC … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged bps, China, Commodities, CPI, Crude oil, crude oil prices, december rate hike, DJIA, ECB, Economic, economic data, economic growth, Emerging Markets, Employment, Fed, Fed Funds rate, Federal Reserve, FOMC, FOMC minutes, Government, Inflation, interest rate, Janet Yellen, Markets, monetary policy, rate hike, rate rise, S&P 500, S&P500, unemployment rate, Yellen
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Fed Note
Fed Note Well, this FOMC meeting was the big one, or at least had the potential to be. But, again, investors hoping for higher rates were disappointed—the Fed kept rates as they are for now. In recent weeks, the probability of the … Continue reading
Posted in Economic News
Tagged China, dovish, economic growth, Employment, Fed, Fed Note, federal funds rate, Federal Reserve, FOMC, Inflation, interest rates, Janet Yellen, monetary policy, no rate hike, rate hike, rates unchanged, September FOMC Meeting, September Meeting, September rate hike
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Brian Wesbury ‘The Triple Mandate’
Listen to Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist at First Trust Portfolios, discuss a third mandate of today’s Fed that goes one step beyond maximum employment and price stability and why he believes we are still destined for a rate hike in June. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Wesbury, Federal Reserve, June Rate Hike, mandate, maximum employment, price stability, rate hike
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