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Inflation Watch Update
August 15, 2017
OPEN Inflation Watch Update The attached tables update inflation rates through July 2017. This month, we also take a look at interesting pictures of inflation.
OPEN Inflation Watch Update The attached tables update inflation rates through July 2017. This month, we also take a look at interesting pictures of inflation.
The Wall Street Journal – Skepticism Mounts (Again) About the Next Fed Rate Hike The market is once again second-guessing whether the Federal Reserve can lift rates again this year. The yield on the two-year Treasury note, which tends to rise alongside expectations for interest rate increases, fell to 1.29% from its early-July level of 1.41%,… Continue reading Doubting The Next Fed Hike
CNBC – ‘Blockchain technology will change the world’: Fidelity Labs SVP Bitcoin is “digital gold” and “blockchain technology will change the world,” said Hadley Stern of Fidelity Labs. Imagining the future of blockchain technology is like trying to imagine Google and Facebook on the day the first web browser came out, said Hadley Stern, senior… Continue reading Bitcoin Is Still A Small Market
Brookings – Where The Robots Are This is not to say robots determined the outcome of the 2016 election. However, the red-state robot concentration does suggest that to the extent industrial automation brings difficult labor market transitions and anxiety, it will visit those difficulties most heavily on a particular swath of red-leaning America—specifically, the most… Continue reading Robots Are Taking Your Jobs…In Red States
Bloomberg.com – Oil ‘God’ Blames Weaker Outlook and Algos in His Goodbye Letter Andy Hall says 2018 oil price outlook has deteriorated Sees algorithmic trading dominating market for some time Andy Hall, the oil trader known to many as “God”, said he decided to close his flagship hedge fund amid a deteriorating outlook for prices next year and the… Continue reading God v Algos
The Financial Times – Lawrence Summers: Why the Federal Reserve’s job will get harder Janet Yellen’s successor faces a series of political and economic challenges I would have preferred a slower pace in raising rates at a number of junctures. I also think that in its statements the Fed has consistently over-assessed future inflation, growth… Continue reading Lawrence Summers Talks About The Difficulties Facing The Fed
Bloomberg – U.S. Oil Drillers Keep Pressure on OPEC With Record Shale Output Oil output from major U.S. shale plays is poised to reach a fresh record next month, further complicating OPEC’s efforts to support prices. The gain is being led by the oil-rich Permian basin of Texas and New Mexico, where production has risen… Continue reading Crude Oil Supply/Demand
Bloomberg – U.S. Stock Buybacks Are Plunging U.S. stocks have been able to hit fresh highs this year despite a dearth of demand from a key source of buying. Share repurchases by American companies this year are down 20 percent from this time a year ago, according to Societe Generale global head of quantitative strategy… Continue reading Stock Buybacks Declining
Bloomberg – Trump Will Get His Tax Cuts, Vast Majority of Economists Say The pros who make their living forecasting the economy overwhelmingly expect President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans to push through tax cuts in time for next year’s congressional elections. They just don’t think that the reductions will do all that much… Continue reading Odds Of A Tax Cut
Bloomberg – Junk Bonds of the Financial Crisis Were the Decade’s Biggest Winners If you’d bought European high-yield bonds the day the global financial crisis erupted, closed your eyes and held onto them through the unprecedented events of the following decade, you would now be sitting on a 100 percent return. On the other hand,… Continue reading Crowning The Best Asset Class Since The Financial Meltdown
Wall Street Journal – Bitcoin Soars Past $4,000 in Weekend Trading The gains seem to be coming at the expense of other digital currencies The price of the digital currency bitcoin crossed over the $4,000 mark for the first time in its nine-year history, despite a widespread selloff in other major digital currencies. Bitcoin was trading Sunday… Continue reading Bitcoin Goes Parabolic Again