Mid Term
The bears on Spanish and Italian debt have a free hand to drive down prices for weeks yet
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To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...So what happens to you and me if Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling? (And, yes, it could really produce financial Armageddon but not in the way that anyone is talking about now)
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Is this the summer swoon of 2010 revisted?
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...By continuing its promise to keep U.S. interest rates low for “an extended period” the Fed has raised global inflation danger
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This morning the European Central Bank raised its benchmark interest rate to 1.25% from 1.00%. The financial markets are now looking for another interest rate increase in a month or two and for two or more increases to 1.75% by the end of 2011.
The ECB is expected to raise rates on Thursday
The European Central Bank will go first. The bank meets on Thursday, April 7, and financial markets project that it will be the first of the big three central banks to raise interest rates.
When will interest rates start to go up in the U.S. and other developed economies? Here’s what the markets now expect
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To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Economy adds 103,000 jobs in December but falls short of projections
For December the U.S. added 103,000 jobs. That was well short of the 150,000 new jobs that economists expected. The disappointment was tempered by revisions to the data for October and November that raised the number of new jobs created in those months.
The private sector adds jobs (yay!) but at a very slow pace (boo!) so no double-dip recession (yay!) but a jobless recovery (boo!)
Today’s jobs report adds up to good news–if you so pessimistic that you were worried about the U.S. economy slipping back into a recession. The private sector is hiring—albeit slowly. Wages are climbing—even if at a snail’s pace.
The economy is growing and this data argues against a double dip recession