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Fed Stressed Out About Ongoing Disruptions In Bank Funding Markets
The Federal Reserve’s policy meeting this week had, unusually, little to do with interest rates.
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Is the Corporate Debt Bubble Ripe Yet?
What does it mean when the Fed and other central banks jointly bemoan the effects of their own policies? Worried about not being able to keep all the plates spinning?
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Trump Will Cancel New China Tariffs, Offers Cut Existing Tariffs By 50%
And just like that, confirming weeks of media speculation, Trump has folded with the Dow Jones/WSJ reporting that not only will Trump not impose the new tariffs set to come into effect on Dec 15, but will cut existing tariffs by up to 50%.
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S&P 500 Hits Record, Dow Jumps 200 Points
Trump tweet saying US is 'very close' to China deal. Stocks jumped in early trading Thursday after President Donald Trump said China and the U.S. were zeroing in on a trade deal.
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Paul Volcker: The Last of His Kind: Jim Rickards
Volcker had a solid understanding of inflation and had opposed going off the gold standard in 1971.
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Gold & Silver Extend Gains On Lagarde's "Inflation Is Coming" Comments
Gold and silver have erased all the post-Payrolls losses...
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Gold to Extend Gain as Citi Says Low U.S. Rates Here to Stay
“With the risks to global growth still to the downside; with inflation still undershooting, not overshooting; and with trade tensions still likely to persist through 2020, we think the bar to cut or to go back to policy easing is lower.”
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Even BLS Confused After Jobless Claims Soar Most In Over Two Years
We look to Larry Kudlow for color on what snapped in the first week of December, as left without an explanation the unexpected surge in claims is certainly an ominous inflection point for the state of the US labor market.
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US Producer Prices Grow At Slowest Pace In Over 3 Years
...headline PPI holding at just 1.1% YoY - the lowest since September 2016.
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New Trend in House Selling Could Cloud over America’s Property Market
‘With these types of transactions gaining market share, it reduces the accuracy and usefulness of data that is based on traditional multiple listing service...
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Americans’ Souring Credit Card Debt Poised to Reach 10 Year High
Americans are projected to fall seriously behind on their credit card bills at the highest rate in a decade as banks push a record number of people to get plastic.The share of credit card borrowers who are at least 90 days past due on their accounts will probably tick up to 2.01% next
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Watch Live: Christine Lagarde's First Press Conference As ECB President
"will it include a pledge to also do ‘whatever it takes’ to get to the Eurozone to net-zero carbon emissions?"
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Feds Collect Record Taxes Through November
But Still Run $343.3 Billion Deficit With Second-Highest Spending in Nation's History...
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China Suffers Biggest Dollar Bond Default in Two Decades
A major Chinese commodities trader became the biggest dollar bond defaulter among the nation’s state-owned companies in two decades, in a moment of reckoning for Beijing as it struggles to contain credit risk in a weakening economy.
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Fed Rate Cuts Have Been like 'Crack' and 'Heroin for the Markets'
Will the Fed keep dealing out interest rates cuts? Top strategists weigh in.
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ECB Holds Rates Steady at Lagarde's Debut Policy Meeting
The Governing Council voted to keep the main deposit rate at the historic low of -0.5%, in line with market expectations, while the marginal lending facility remained at 0.25%.
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Swiss National Bank Indicates Negative Rates to Stay for Long Haul
The Swiss National Bank remains wedded to its ultra-expansive monetary policy, indicating on Thursday that its negative interest rates would remain in place for the foreseeable future...
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Here’s What to Expect from the ECB Decision
Even without interest-rate changes, the first meeting will be closely watched for clues as to how the Lagarde era at the ECB will differ from that of her predecessor who never once lifted interest rates.
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Euro zone industrial production falls as expected in October
Euro zone industrial production fell as expected in October because of a decline in the output of capital goods used for investment, estimates from the European Union’s statistics office Eurostat showed on Thursday.
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EU Seeks to ARM Itself Against U.S, Others in Trade Disputes
The European Union could impose tariffs on the United States and other rivals if they refuse to settle trade disputes after the crippling of the World Trade Organization.
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