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Overview: The capital markets are relatively quiet so far today as the FOMC meeting gets underway. Equity markets in the Asia-Pacific region, but Japan and Australia advanced, and the regional benchmark rose for the fourth consecutive session. European stocks are a little firmer. The three-d...

By Jill Mislinski The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August Consumer Price Index data this morning (Sept. 11). The year-over-year non-seasonally adjusted Headline CPI came in at 1.31%, up from 0.99% the previous month. Year-over-year Core CPI (ex Food and Energy) came in at 1.74%,...

Often, prices alone cannot tell the story. Knowing a stock has gone up 10% is nice, but if that happens in the context of the broad market rising 20% then it's not so nice. In the bond market, comparing one yield to another is essential to understanding value. Virtually every bond in the world...

There can be little doubt that macroeconomic policies are failing around the world. The fallacies being exposed are so entrenched that there are bound to be twists and turns yet to come. This article explains the fallacies behind inflation, deflation, economic performance and interest rat...

By Kevin Flanagan While the headlines surrounding the August Employment Situation report seemed to focus on the moderating pace of new hiring activity, in my humble opinion, the bigger story was the sizable drop in the unemployment rate. The markets and headlines tend to focus more on no...

On August 27, the Federal Reserve released an important revision to its monetary policy strategy, replacing 2% price inflation targeting - initially adopted in 2012 - with a new approach in which the Fed will target an average inflation rate instead. To quote the Fed’s statement , ...

By Simon Constable At the end of last month, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell announced a shift in one of its decades-long policy goals. It's a move that should worry investors and workers alike. Here's what happened and why it's a problem: At the Fed's annual Jackson Hole symposiu...

By Frank Shostak The US Fed is considering lifting its inflation target above 2 percent in order to revive the economy. Contrary to the accepted practice, the Fed is not expected to raise an alarm if the measured price inflation begins to rise. The US central bank is not expected to counte...

I usually love writing. I get up early every morning, make a cup of coffee, put on my headphones, and look forward to discovering what my subconscious will surprise me with. Not this time. I hated every minute I spent working on this article. There are many reasons for this. A...

By Erin Bigley Transcript: With interest rates having fallen to historically low levels this year, investors are understandably questioning what to do with the duration in their portfolio. Duration is a measure of the interest-rate sensitivity of a bond portfolio: how much bond pr...