Trick or Trend: The markets have decided that the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates in September, but what about the other tightening that month?
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A day after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen boosted markets with her worries about slow inflation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released numbers on inflation at the producer level–otherwise known as wholesale inflation–that showed inflation is weak but not totally absent. The Producer Price Index rose at a 2% annual rate in June.
Yellen’s comments, bond market reaction make life “interesting” before bank stock earnings on Friday
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It’s not much to hang a rally on, but the Treasury and stock markets moved up after Fed chair Janet Yellen told the House Financial Services Committee today that “the federal funds rate may not have to rise all that much further to get to a neutral policy stance.”
Notes You Need for July 11: AAPL, semiconductor revenue, PEP, oil price forecast, U.S. oil drilling demand, TSLA, Fed on interest rates
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The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index for June released this morning climbed to 57.8 from 54.9 in May. That was the highest level of the index, where anything above 50 signals expansion, since 2014. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had projected a slight uptick to 55 for June.
Existing home sales say Fed hasn’t wrecked economy in a week
Existing home sales in May rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.62 million. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had projected a 5.52 million annual rate. The May total is up from April’s revised total of 5.56 million and is 2.7% above the pace in May 2016.