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Market Capitalization As A Percentage Of GDP
January 30, 2014
The Wall Street Journal – U.S. GDP Advances 3.2% in 4th Quarter The U.S. economy expanded at a steady clip in the fourth quarter as consumers opened their wallets and businesses picked up investment, marking one of the best six-month periods of growth in a decade. Gross domestic product, which is the broadest measure of… Continue reading Market Capitalization As A Percentage Of GDP
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The FOMC Meeting
January 30, 2014
[pageview class=”PDFViewer” url=”https://www.biancoresearch.com/bianco/wp-content/plugins/PDFViewer/plugin.php?id=172″] The Wall Street Journal – Fed to Further Cut Bond-Buying Program Officials See Growth Pickup but Caution on Labor Market The Federal Reserve said it would further pare its signature bond-buying program next month, a move that solidifies the central bank’s strategy for winding down the purchases in small steps at each… Continue reading The FOMC Meeting
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The Fixed Rate Repo Experiment Is Extended
January 30, 2014
<Click on chart for larger image> The New York Fed – Statement to Revise Terms of Overnight Fixed-Rate Reverse Repurchase Agreement Operational Exercise As noted in the October 19, 2009, Statement Regarding Reverse Repurchase Agreements, the Open Market Trading Desk (the Desk) at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (New York Fed) has been… Continue reading The Fixed Rate Repo Experiment Is Extended
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Emerging Markets
January 30, 2014
<Click on chart for larger image> The Wall Street Journal – The Fed Erred in Ignoring Emerging Markets The most striking aspect of Wednesday’s statement from the U.S. Federal Open Market Committee was not that it opted to continue tapering the Fed’s bond-buying program – regardless of my failed prediction that emerging-market turmoil would give… Continue reading Emerging Markets
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Controlling Asset Prices
January 30, 2014
CNBC – Fed experimented in ‘price controls’: Grant The Federal Reserve’s stimulus policies should have gone by a different, more controversial name, the founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer told CNBC on Wednesday. Quantitative easing seems more like price control, said Jim Grant, who writes a twice-monthly journal that covers U.S. financial markets.… Continue reading Controlling Asset Prices
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Bulls vs. Bears
January 30, 2014
<Click on chart for larger image> MoneyBeat (WSJ Blog) – As Stocks Decline, Optimists Hold Line U.S. stocks have started the year with a thud, but it has been a reluctant rout. Wednesday’s 189.77-point decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average left it down 5.1% for the year. What’s interesting, though, isn’t that stocks are… Continue reading Bulls vs. Bears
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Bernanke’s Legacy
January 30, 2014
Gallup – Fed Chairman Bernanke Leaves With Mixed Verdict Presiding over the darkest days the U.S. economy has experienced since the Great Depression, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke leaves office this week as one of the most influential economic policymakers in the country’s recent history. But the American public is divided on how Bernanke has… Continue reading Bernanke’s Legacy
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IMF Sees 20% Odds Of Deflation
January 30, 2014
The Telegraph – World risks deflationary shock as BRICS puncture credit bubbles Half the world economy is one accident away from a deflation trap. The International Monetary Fund says the probability may now be as high as 20pc. It is a remarkable state of affairs that the G2 monetary superpowers – the US and China… Continue reading IMF Sees 20% Odds Of Deflation
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Superbowl By The Numbers
January 30, 2014
<Click on chart for larger image> <Click on chart for larger image> Sporting Charts – Super Bowl Commercial Cost By The Number The Super Bowl is one of the most watched television events each year as more than 100 million people in the U.S. end up watching the game. And while the game is the… Continue reading Superbowl By The Numbers
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Cartoons
January 30, 2014
Charts of the Week
Charts of the Week
January 29, 2014
Charts of the Week Topics Covered This Week Include: Mutual Fund Flows QE And The Markets The Fed’s Reverse Repo Program Emerging Markets – 1 Emerging Markets – 2 U.S. Policy Uncertainty Yellen’s First Order Of Business The Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet Stock Market Correlation S&P 500 Operating vs Reported Earnings 10-Year TIPS Breakeven Inflation… Continue reading Charts of the Week