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LiveWire Economics Blog - November 1, 2016 11:57
Interest Rates Abound as Election Time Looms
As we move ever closer to the US election, what more could you ask for than a week packed with highly anticipated economic data? Expect Gold and stock indices to be volatile as we move into the second half of the week. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s about to land. Already, as of Tuesday […]
Fed Meeting Set To Show The Way
The next installment of the Federal Reserve meeting, with the press release that is published at close the meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee. This is followed by a press conference hosted by the president of the Fed, Janet Yellen. All eyes are on comments surrounding interest rates, and how the Fed see’s the economy […]
Gold, Oil and Stocks As The Fed Goes To Bed
In an unsurprising announcement, the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday. In a statement they succumbed once again to the fact that the economy has slowed, yet at the same time, left open the door for a hike in June. There seems no hurry to tighten monetary policy at the Fed, but they […]
Forex Report For The Coming Week
The Pound remains close to a six-year high against the US Dollar despite softening slightly at the end of last week as a result of the release of weaker-than-expected construction data. The data showed that construction output dropped by 1.1% in May, the largest drop seen since February. Further losses were restrained as the data […]
GBP Advances On Weekend House Price Report
The Pound advanced against the Euro and US Dollar after a report released over the weekend showed that UK house prices increased for a 15th consecutive month in April suggesting that momentum in the UK property market has spread beyond the confines of London. With a lack of key data due for today Sterling is […]
Interest Rates Up? Not Likely, Todays Inflation Report Due
Do you think that interest rates are going to rise soon? Personally, I don’t think so. But the recent dramatic slide of unemployment rates in the UK has many analysts speculating that the Bank of England’s Mark Carney is ready to hint at this in an adjustment of forward guidance in his quarterly inflation report […]
Jobless Claims Fall As Does the Dollar
In economic data today coming from the United States, the initial weekly jobless claims fell by 2000 to 328,000 for the week ended 11th January. This figure was just slightly above the consensus estimate which had all been pointing at a reading of around 325,000. Also released the same time were the secondary unemployment claims […]
Summers Out as Fed Chair Nets Bond Buying
The news that Larry Summers has withdrawn his name from contention for being Ben Bernanke’s replacement as the Chairman of the FOMC had an immediate effect on the markets, sending equity futures rising along with bond prices. The benchmark 10 year US Treasury Note yield dropped nearly 90 basis points and is trading at an […]
Bonds Routed, Stocks Up, All is Normal?
As if there was ever any doubt that the central banks would not flood the world with unlimited amounts of paper as the Bank of Japan and the ECB both reaffirmed their loose monetary policies which sent equities around the world flying higher. It is too bad, of course, that organic growth only accounts for […]
Commodity and Equity Bifurcation Continues Towards Plaid
The markets have gone plaid. We had horrible Chinese and German flash PMI data come out this morning which kept commodity prices under duress all day. Copper continues its trek towards $3.00 per lb. Silver broke back below $23 after challenging $24 yesterday. The grain complex was whacked across the board in late session trading […]
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