This is a sign of optimism the expansion will continue and it's consistent with move up in stock prices. |
This is evidence of what many have said they've personally experienced, ... Many people can relate to the idea that the inflation rate has accelerated, when they take trips to gas station or buy food or health care -- so many products and services. |
This is not a good way to intervene, to tell the markets ... What you want them to do is panic their way out of their positions. |
This time, they want to keep rates low to fight deflation -- a demon that may have vanished already. They might be successful again, but something else might build up, some other unintended consequence, including some inflation. |
Today, the market witnessed the other side of that de-leveraging process, ... If this was the fuel [driving up bonds recently], there's probably not a lot of that left. |
Today, the market witnessed the other side of that de-leveraging process. If this was the fuel [driving up bonds recently], there's probably not a lot of that left. |
Traders realize Snow has weekly breakfast meetings with [Fed Chairman] Alan Greenspan, and they thought his comments might reflect some type of informed opinion, |
Unless the Bush administration can successfully counter recent criticism, Bush and consumer confidence might continue to flounder. If so, the markets will justifiably worry about Bush's chances of re-election. |
We haven't seen big gains in jobs yet, so Greenspan can't be completely confident this expansion will be self-reinforcing, ... But I believe a blowout employment report is on the near-term horizon, and that will set the conditions for a change in interest rates. |
What he did was defend his actions rather than quell the fears of systemic risk. I'm really surprised that he'd do more to stem fears of hedge-fund community fallout. |
What we're seeing is an increase in the manufacturing sector, ... The manufacturing sector has been very weak for the last year and a half -- since the Asian (financial) crisis. Now, that sector seems to be recovering. |
What you're left with is a figure consistent with the inflation rate slowly moving upward, |
What's the expression? 'If your neighbor loses his job, it's a recession, but if you lose your job, it's a depression?' Maybe it depends on who's making the definition. |
When businesses begin to believe that others are raising prices, they raise prices, too, ... That will have to be arrested [by the Fed], and the only way to do it is sooner rather than later. |
When risk aversion is declining, money will flow out of the safe-haven Treasury market into riskier assets, ... High-yield bonds have increased in price in the past week; holders of junk bonds are doing well right now. |