US Data Preview Commentary: 2Q GDP/Personal Income; FOMC/Powell; New Home Sales and … Evictions
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) –A week ahead with a soaring GDP, strong income, maybe some more records for stocks, all in all a super summer under way with only a few negatives, like a pending wave of evictions, a raging virus, accelerating inflation and deep and sometimes paralyzing ideological fissures. For the time being, no one is […]
FOMC Mainstream Seems In No Hurry To Taper As Late July Meeting Nears
By Steven K. Beckner (MaceNews) – Having started “talking about talking about” scaling back asset purchases at their mid-June Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Federal Reserve policymakers will presumably begin really “talking about” “tapering at the July 27-28 FOMC meeting. The timing of actual reductions in bond buying, however, remains very much in doubt, although […]
US Data Preview Commentary: Housing Starts/Existing Home Sales, LEI, and a Higher Wall of Worry
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) –It’s housing week coming up for U.S. economic data and analysts will be checking new housing completions Tuesday, a much more telling number than starts these days. Completions run several months behind starts which tabulate the stage before construction. It’s completions which calibrate the pipeline to an existing home sale, something that often […]
Monday Washington Schedules from MaceNews
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following are Monday’s schedules for the White House, Treasury, the State Department, the Capitol and for upcoming Federal Reserve events: The White House DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORMONDAY, JULY 12, 2021 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the President’s Daily Brief in the Oval Office. […]
Saturday/SundayWashington Schedules from MaceNews
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following are the Saturday’s and Sunday’s schedules for the White House, Treasury, the State Department, the Capitol and for upcoming Federal Reserve events: The White House WEEKEND GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORSATURDAY, JULY 10, 2021 AND SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2021 On Saturday, the President has no public events scheduled. On Sunday […]
US Data Preview Commentary: CPI, PPI, Retail Sales, Powell Testimonies, IndPro, Beige Bk and More
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – Be brave, it’s peak fraidy-cat week for inflation horrors to descend upon us, or rather, to show up in the data, having plagued us last month. If the price-pressure nightmares show up as expected, the Fed folks will be forced to accelerate their consideration of tapering at the very least (Wharton’s Jeremy […]
ECB Lifts Inflation Target to 2%, Willing to Tolerate Overshoot
By Laurie Laird LONDON (MaceNews) – The European Central Bank Thursday lifted its inflation target to 2% and vowed to tolerate a short-term overshoot of the target. The new target is “not a ceiling,” said ECB President Christine Lagarde, presenting the Bank’s strategy review. Previously the bank aimed for a target of close to but […]
FOMC Minutes: Tapering Parameters Much Discussed But Action Awaits More Data, Time
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The Federal Open Market mid-June meeting minutes released Wednesday afternoon highlighted the discussions around tapering to a greater degree than indicated by Fed Chair Jay Powell’s news conference and subsequent Fedspeak, yet made clear the fog of uncertainty is not expected to suggest any action until more time has produced more data. […]
US Data Preview Commentary: Personal Income, Existing/New-Home Sales, Durables and the Downside to ‘Transitory’
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – Beware what look like quiet weeks ahead, like the upcoming week when the Earth’s northern pole tilts to the max toward the sun. The summer solstice means that after 3:32 Monday morning the days start getting shorter in our hemisphere and the diminishing daylight is appropriate for a time of what seems […]
Bundesbank’s Weidmann: Sharp Price Rises in Germany ‘Temporary;’ No Signs of Excessive Medium-Term Price Pressures
ZURICH (MaceNews) – Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann that current price increases in Germany are of a temporary nature and that he doesn’t see signs of higher inflation rates solidifying. In an interview with the business daily Handelsblatt, Weidmann said that “from our viewpoint, the sharp price increases in Germany are temporary and there aren’t signs […]