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By Jill Mislinski The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the June Consumer Price Index data on Thursday morning. The year-over-year non-seasonally adjusted Headline CPI came in at 1.65%, down from 1.79% the previous month. Year-over-year Core CPI (ex Food and Energy) came in at 2.13%, up ...
By Barkley Rosser Buried in the Weekend section of the Financial Times is a report that the aggregate value of assets that earn negative nominal yields has substantially expanded since the beginning of 2019 and has reached a new high. So, on January 1, 2019, the value of these assets was...
By Krishna Memani , Vice Chairman of Investments The Fed's pivot to easier policy likely extends the current business cycle As the global equity markets rebounded from their December 2018 lows, we have all heard the constant refrain: Bad news being good news can't last, the day of...
Three different people directed me to a Robert Barro column that asks how the Fed achieved its recent success in inflation targeting: Judging by the US inflation rate over past decades, the Fed's monetary policy has worked brilliantly. Annual inflation has averaged only 1.5% per year si...
There are few things about financial markets about which one can be certain. However, there could be an exception today when there is such a discrepancy between the gloomy government bond market and the optimistic equity market's view as to where the US and world economies might be headed. In ...
By James Knightley , Chief International Economist Financial markets have taken Jerome Powell's testimony as a signal that the Federal Reserve is fully on board for rate cuts. However, the statement is more nuanced and hints at a more cautious approach from the Fed than is currently ...
Wednesday and Thursday this week, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is going to give testimony on the state of monetary policy to the United States Congress. Many people seem to be thinking that this is a very important public appearance for the Mr. Powell. I am in agreement with th...
David Beckworth: Our guest today is Heather Boushey. Heather is the Executive Director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a think tank founded to accelerate cutting edge analysis and to whether and how structural changes in the US economy affect economic growth. Heather recently ...
So far this year, the U.S. equity market has both set new record highs and experienced more than a -6% return in a single month. Even while garnering headlines, stock market performance may not be the most notable part of 2019. Bond yields have fallen dramatically this year: After peaking at 3...
In late 1998, the 2-year Treasury yield and the DXY index started to descend in lockstep once the Federal Reserve (Fed) finally decided to cut rates as a proactive step based on its market and economic concerns around Long-Term Capital Management’s disorderly implosion and the Asian fin...