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The Christian Science Monitor – Whatever happened to the big, bad federal deficit? Spending is up in Congress and only one likely GOP presidential candidate has mentioned the ‘d’ word. What happened to the red ink menace? Whatever...
<Click on chart for larger image> Bloomberg Business – Forget Interest Rates, the Fed Has Another Big Decision to Make in the Next Year In case exiting years of zero interest rates won’t be hard enough, Federal Reserve officials have...
Zacks – Is Oil Driving Q1 Earnings Estimates Lower? It has been the usual practice for quarterly earnings estimates to come down ahead of the start of each earnings season. This trend has been particularly notable over the last couple of years...
<Click on graphic for larger image> Economics 21 – Caroline Baum: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs—and Nothing to Show for Them? If Federal Reserve policymakers were to look solely at headline labor market indicators, they might be tempted to conclude...
<Click on chart for larger image> Real Time Economics (WSJ Blog) – NY Fed Plumbs Balance Between Reverse Repos, Market Stability A report released on Friday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York highlights the balancing act the central...
Seeking Alpha – QE Never Left Us: The U.S. Economy And Stocks Will Grow Faster And Higher – QE is still with us. It will help propel the U.S. economy and U.S. stocks forward in 2015. – Massive stocks of liquidity accumulated during...
<Click on graphic for larger image> Barron’s – Oil Prices: Four Experts Size Up the Energy Market Four experts explain what’s ahead and highlight the best investment opportunities in the energy sector. Perhaps the biggest surprise...
<Click on chart for larger image> The Wall Street Journal – January U.S. Auto Sales Held Strong Fueled by low gasoline prices and easier credit, the U.S. auto industry pulled its recent winning streak into 2015 with a projected 15%...
ValueWalk.com – Finding Dividend Paying Stocks During Market Volatility In the coming volatile times, it will be more challenging to pick the winners and losers. They will change from one week to the next based on the latest news that has the...
Bloomberg.com – Hedge Funds Bet Oil Will Fall Further Hedge funds boosted bearish wagers on oil to a four-year high as U.S. supplies grew the most since 2001. Money managers increased short positions in West Texas Intermediate crude to the...
<Click on graphic for larger image> The Wall Street Journal – Investors Shift Bets on Fed Rate Increase Gauges Indicate More Expect Delay in Increase A wave of global economic gloom has turned the U.S. money market on its head, with more...
The Federal Reserve – Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee “While some participants had lowered their assessments of the prospects for global economic growth, several noted that the likelihood of further responses by policymakers...