An inflation test for the new guy at the Fed
Ahead of congressional testimony tomorrow by new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, Wall Street is buzzing with speculation that the Powell Fed will be willing let inflation run higher than its current target of 2%. Maybe as high as 2.5%. Some of this is clearly...
This is as good as it gets, says Goldman Sachs: Why that’s important to you in thinking about the next leg in this stock market
On Thursday February 22, Goldman Sachs wrote in a note to clients that the economic macro data as likely to be “as good as it gets.” This isn’t, in my opinion, a call for an immediate plunge in the markets. But with U.S. stocks trading near all time...
The Federal Reserve raises interest rates as expected–but the dot plot has a surprise or two
No surprise: The Federal Reserve raised its short-term benchmark Fed Funds rate by 25 basis points to a range of 1.25% to 1.50% at today’s meeting of the Open Market Committee. No surprise: The Fed and its outgoing chair Janet Yellen didn’t say anything...
DR Horton earnings left home builders and entire market
DR Horton (DHI) led home building stocks higher, rising 5.43% as of 1 p.m. New York time, after showing a 31% jump in net income in earnings reported this morning before the market opened. The company also guided Wall Street to expect a strong selling season this...
So far the markets believe the Fed was bluffing in Jackson Hole speeches on September interest rate increase
Last week Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen tried to convince financial markets in her speech at the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole get-together that an interest rate increase at the central bank’s September 21 meeting was still a possibility. But just as the...Wednesday brings the final read on Q3 GDP–economists are looking for an increase to 2.8% growth
No holiday from economic data this week. Wednesday brings what’s called the final revision of third quarter U.S. GDP growth estimates. (We’ll get the final, final figure in 2011.) The previous estimated came in at 2.5% growth, itself an increase from the first...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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