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The Fed tightens and stocks tank. The Fed promises to stop tightening and stocks soar. The Fed implies that it might actually cut rates and stocks soar some more. The Fed appears to take back the rate cut promise and the markets turn choppy. It's been a wild ride. But during the past four mo...

The dollar holds a special place in the world currency market. Following Friday's strong job report, it is surprising we are not hearing anyone talking about raising interest rates or how this may be inflationary. Instead, the focus has been steered in the direction of how we have obtained a "...

Three pieces of recent good news for Federal Reserve officials. First, the rate of growth of the US economy rose or remained constant for the twelfth consecutive month , coming in for the first quarter of 2019 at 3.2 percent. Second, the growth rate of labor force productivity came in at...

By SchiffGold The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting wrapped up Wednesday with Fed policy still in neutral. As expected, the FOMC left interest rates unchanged and seemed to indicate it doesn't plan to do anything at all in the near term. Jerome Powell's comments dampened expe...

The BCI at 258.6 is above last week's 257.9, and formed a new high for this business cycle indicated by the BCIp of 100. Also, the 6-month smoothed annualized growth BCIg at 13.7 is above last week’s 12.9. Both BCIp and BCIg are not signaling a recession. (BCIp needs to drop below 25, o...

Overview: The US dollar is consolidating yesterday's post-Fed rally, and this is giving it a slightly heavier tone today. Equities are mostly lower and Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 is off about 0.5% in late morning turnover, which if sustained would be the largest decline in three weeks. The...

They will have to be forced into it. There is no voluntary rate cut and there never has been. This idea, however, is what's being offered today in the wake of another stubborn line in the sand. Central bankers are always, always the last to figure things out. Jay Powell was still talking abo...

As was widely expected, the U.S. Federal Reserve held its target policy rate range steady at this week's meeting. While the Fed did announce a small change to the interest it pays on excess reserves, this was simply fine-tuning the transmission of monetary policy to broader money markets and t...

By Collin Martin When the yield curve is flat, as it has been recently, investors often ask us: Why invest in long-term bonds when one can get similar yields with safer, short-term investments like U.S. Treasury bills or money market funds? It's a logical question - after all, the 10-yea...

By Collin Martin As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) - the Federal Reserve's policymaking arm - on Wednesday maintained the 2.25-2.5% target range for the Federal Funds rate. 1 The decision was unanimous. While the main policy rate was left unchanged, the committee lower...