Inflation holds steady at annual 1.7% rate
The Consumer Price Index rose 0.1% in July from June. CPI headline inflation is now running at a 1.7% annual rate, below the Federal Reserve’s target of 2% inflation. The core inflation rate, which excludes food and energy prices, rose 0.1% in July and is also up 1.7% year over year.
Increased OPEC production presses on oil prices
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Market goes from worried to freaked out today
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Good luck on getting that done: Debt ceiling truce looks to be over (if it ever really existed)
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Notes You Need for August 9: Oil inventories, U.S. productivity, Fed balance sheet, North Korea, gold, MCD China
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Haven assets in demand after day of heated rhetoric on North Korea and nukes
Not surprisingly haven assets such as gold and the Japanese yen are up today. So are volatility measures such as the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index (VIX.) Surprisingly, the rush to safety hasn’t been as strong as you might expect after a day when U.S.President Donald Trump threatened North Korea with fire and fury and that country responded by threatening to nuke Guam.
The market’s doing it again–forgetting that earnings don’t matter with immature biotech stocks such as Nektar
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Why the huge intraday swing in stocks? The reason matters
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Sorry for the recent swings in the frequency of my daily posts
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No volatility anywhere
By this time you’re certainly aware that volatility in the U.S. stock market is near record lows. (It’a actually below record lows when you recalibrate the VIX for revisions to that index.) But the lack of volatility in the bond market may have escaped your attention. It’s even more pronounced than the lows in the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index (VIX.)
Saturday Night Quarterback (on a Sunday) says, For the week ahead expect…
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