U.S. Department of Agriculture
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The FOMC is out with its highly anticipated minutes of its last meeting. While there is some clarification and some expansion of their comments along with Ben Bernanke anticipation, we would remind...
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Source: ThinkstockThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today released its preliminary report on June farm prices. The index uses prices from 1990 to 1992 as its base value (100). The June...
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Source: ThinkstockJeffrey Lacker of the Richmond Federal Reserve is considered very much a hawkish Fed president, but his comments on Wednesday are helping the stock market. After Ben Bernanke’s...
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Source: ThinkstockThe stock market has been pummeled from its highs just a month ago, and at the same time we have seen the unusual circumstance where the yields on long-term bonds have risen. It...
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Source: ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has issued its National Activity Index (CFNAI) for the month of May. While the number appears to be an improvement over April, it is...
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Ben Bernanke’s post-FOMC comments on bond tapering this week may have been misinterpreted, or maybe the market reaction will prove to be correct. What has happened is that the markets are...
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Source: Jon OggThe US Treasury 30-year bond, the so-called Long Bond, is proving to be a widow-maker to those who bought a couple of months ago. Most investors did not want to hear that a mere 1%...
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Source: courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveThe bond market and stock market have both been anxiously awaiting the announcement from the FOMC and a conference from Ben Bernanke after the Fed’s two-day...
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Source: Jon OggInvestors may be overthinking the outcome of when, not if, Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve are going to start winding down or tapering the $85 billion in monthly bond buying....
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Source: ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has submitted its Household Net Worth report for the first quarter of 2013 and there is good news. Total household net worth reached $70.3 trillion, up about $3...
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Source: ThinkstockNOTE: Due to a posting and timestamp error, this article is being reposted in the system after an original time of 2:15 p.m. EST on Wednesday, June 5, 2013.The Federal Reserve has...
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Source: Courtesy EADS/AirbusFactory orders for the month of April have now been released from the Commerce Department. They were up 1.0%, short of the 1.4% expected by Bloomberg and short of the 1.5%...
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Source: ThinkstockThe New York Federal Reserve branch’s Liberty Street Economics latest blog posting indicates that the New York Fed staff is targeting stronger growth and perhaps better prices...
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Source: ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is headed by President Esther George, and she is the current policy hawk of 2013, after Richmond’s Jeff Lacker had been the big hawk in...
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Source: courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveWe have already seen Ben Bernanke testify to Congress today and the aim was to push back an immediate end to the bond buying and to even push back on the tapering...
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