They'll wait to see how Christmas shapes up, and if it's weak, they'll give another rate cut in January. |
They're adding to the intellectual firepower of the board of governors in terms of regulatory and financial markets issues, but initially they won't be important players in the monetary policy front. |
They're voting with their wallets and they're spending. There's always a concern that people just don't like what they're seeing, but they are still buying. |
This has been a fundamental problem with the Fed's whole approach to policy making, ... By changing their language so frequently, they make it impossible to figure out what they're doing. |
This has been a fundamental problem with the Fed's whole approach to policy making. By changing their language so frequently, they make it impossible to figure out what they're doing. |
This is a feel-good report. When you get a strong growth number and a low inflation number, it's hard to get a better combination than that for the economy. |
This is a nice, clean post-Katrina read. You wouldn't know there'd been a hurricane by the way they're talking about the economy, |
This is a sector that should be one of the engines of growth and should keep the economy healthy in the face of the weakening housing market. |
This is another of these little hints that we won't get a strong employment number on Friday. |
This is one of the very-easy-to-interpret reports. In this one, everything lined up like the planets. |
This is why people talk about radical moves down in the dollar. They just can't see an improvement of the trade balance happening any other way. |
This kind of adds to the sense of a rookie in the institution. They are going to have to learn the ropes for a while before they are going to be influential. |
This large inflow is an important prop for the Treasury market, helping keep yields in their current low trading range, ... Not only is the inflow large relative to new Treasury supply, it may also help stabilize the market when it comes under pressure. If investors start to shy away from the U.S. market, the dollar comes under downward pressure and the Asian central banks pile in to support the U.S. market. |
This large inflow is an important prop for the Treasury market, helping keep yields in their current low trading range. Not only is the inflow large relative to new Treasury supply, it may also help stabilize the market when it comes under pressure. If investors start to shy away from the U.S. market, the dollar comes under downward pressure and the Asian central banks pile in to support the U.S. market. |
This was the big match to get. You just want to get to (today), no matter what it takes. |