PREVIOUS WEEK’S EVENTS Announcements: U.S. Economy Job data for the U.S. released the previous week showed that the number of employed people during the previous…
PREVIOUS WEEK’S EVENTS Announcements: U.S. Economy The U.S. ISM Manufacturing Index fell, showing U.S. factory activity contraction in March. Recent market conditions that involve expected rising…
PREVIOUS WEEK’S EVENTS Announcements: U.S. Banking Crisis During the past week, we have seen several statements from the U.S. carrying an optimistic view regarding the recent…
PREVIOUS WEEK’S EVENTS Announcements: U.S. Banking Crisis During the past week, we observed the chaos and uncertainty that the recent U.S. banking sector has experienced and…
Announcements: The Federal Reserve has made several announcements about the recent shock of Silicon Valley Bank failure. On Sunday, the Federal Reserve Board announced it will…
The US consumer price index (CPI) for July shocked the markets when it came out: 8.5% yoy, down from 9.1% yoy. It was expected to be…
The big thing this past week was of course the surprising decline in inflation in the US. The consumer price index (CPI) was unchanged from the…
In October 1955, Fed Chair William McChesney Martin, Jr. delivered a speech to the New York Group of the Investment Bankers Association of America. In that…
The US just registered two consecutive quarters of “negative growth” – an awkward phrase that means output as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) shrank. (I…
Early in June I wrote a weekly outlook, Is 50 the new 25? It looks like I was right – the European Central Bank (ECB) said…
