WEDNESDAY WHITE HOUSE SCHEDULE

WASHINGTON (MaceNews) -The following is the White House public schedule for Wednesday: DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORWEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2020 EDT 10:00AM                        In-House Pool Call Time 11:20AM                       Out-of-Town Pool Call Time 11:00AM                       THE PRESIDENT participates in a meeting with the Governor of New York Oval Office    Closed Press 12:20PM                        THE PRESIDENT […]

DATA FLASH: US MAY CONFIDENCE STOPS SLIDE; NEW HOMES UP

–Dallas Manufacturing Reading in Line with Other Regional Data By Kevin Kastner WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The Conference Board’s U.S. consumer confidence index rose slightly to a reading of 86.6 in May from a downward revised 85.7 reading in April, stopping the slide at two months but leaving the index well below the recent peak in […]

DATA PREVIEW: US REGIONAL DATA, CONFIDENCE KEY RELEASES

By Kevin Kastner WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The May 25 week starts off with the Memorial Day holiday, but it quickly speeds up from there. Regional conditions data for May are the highlight of the week, with reports from the Philadelphia, Dallas, Richmond and Kansas City Federal Reserve banks and the Chicago PMI on tap ahead […]

US ENERGY SECRETARY: MAY LEASE ADDITIONAL CRUDE OIL STORAGE IN SPR

By Brai Odion-Esene, SW4 Insights, for Mace News WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The Trump administration is pleased with initial results of its actions to secure crude oil for the national stockpile while easing storage pressures on the struggling oil companies, and might conduct similar operations in the near future, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said Thursday. Speaking […]

FED’S CLARIDA: HAVEN’T CHANGED MIND VS NEGATIVE RATES

NEW YORK (MaceNews) – Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida Thursday said he has not changed his mind, that there’s no upside to purposely move to negative rates. Speaking in a webinar sponsored by the New York Association for Business Economics, Clarida also underlined the points made Wednesday and previously by Fed Chair Jay Powell, […]

FED’S WILLIAMS: OUTLOOK UNCERTAIN; TO USE TOOLS ‘TO THE UTMOST’ FOR RECOVERY

NEW YORK (MaceNews) – The Federal Reserve remains open to taking more steps as needed to support the recovery, though negative interest rates are not on the table, New York Fed President John Williams said Thursday. Williams, answering questions during a webcast with a regional business group, said the economic outlook and the likely course […]

DATA FLASH: US INITIAL CLAIMS SLOW; EXISTING HOME SALES PLUNGE

–Initial Claims -249,000 to 2.438 Mln; 35.3 Mln Unadjusted Under COVID–May Philly Fed Manufacturing Index Improved to -43.1 From -56.6 in April–April Existing Home Sales Fell to 4.33 Mln from 5.27 Mln In March By Kevin Kastner WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The U.S. data released on Thursday were a mixed bag, with data for May showing […]

WHITE HOUSE WATCH COMMENTARY: AN INCONSEQUENTIAL VIRUS OBITUARY

By Denny Gulino WASHINGTON (MaceNews) –  With by one count 93,382 deaths blamed on the corona virus through Wednesday, each one a life-altering  tragedy for a family, there is hardly any point chronicling the death of an inanimate process which few could care about or should. Yet the passing of the early morning ritual of […]

FED’S POWELL/US TSY’S MNUCHIN: MAIN ST LENDING MAYBE BY EARLY JUNE

–June To Be Very Difficult for Jobs –Ready to Take Losses on Emergency Loans WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – Even as parts of the economy sputter into a small-scale reactivation hundreds of billions of dollar of government support are poised to be deployed beginning in the next two weeks, the Treasury secretary and Federal Reserve chairman said […]