Date: November 14, 2018 United States: Greenspan Says U.S. May Be Seeing the First Signs of Inflation Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said a rising U.S. debt burden could derail the current expansion and warned the tight labor market could lift inflation. “I’m beginning to see the first signs of it,” Greenspan said about
Date: November 13, 2018 United States: A Strong U.S. Economy Will Boost Global Growth in 2019 Judging by recent headlines, the global economy is on a wild roller coaster that’s going mostly downhill. There are Brexit, trade wars, Italy’s fight with the European Union, renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran, a Chinese debt bomb, jittery stock
Date: November 12, 2018 United States: Fed Risks Backlash Reining in Economy Congress Wants to Rev Up The guardian of the punch bowl is at risk of becoming the punching bag. The Federal Reserve continued to signal at its meeting Thursday that “further gradual increases” in interest rates are coming for the “strong” U.S. economy.
November 9, 2018 United States: Stocks Fall on Oil, China Concerns; Dollar Gains: Markets Wrap U.S. equity-index futures fell for a second day as crude oil’s slide into a bear market and concerns over the health of China’s economy weighed on global stocks. The dollar continued its advance after the Federal Reserve stayed on track
Date: November 06, 2018 United States: U.S. Futures Slip With European Stocks; Oil Drops: Markets Wrap It was a mixed picture across global stock markets on Tuesday, with investors showing some caution as they await the U.S. midterm elections. European equities turned lower alongside American futures while Asian shares advanced. Treasury yields edged up and
Date: November 05, 2018 United States: Trump-Xi Trade Deal Likely to Begin Rather Than End at G-20 President Donald Trump often seems to be caught between his ideological desire to rewrite America’s trade relationship with China and a businessman’s instinct to cut a deal. And with midterm elections looming and financial markets coming off a
Date: November 2, 2018 United States: U.S. Payrolls Rise More Than Forecast as Wage Gains Hit 3.1% American workers enjoyed the biggest leap in pay since 2009 as job gains topped forecasts and the unemployment rate held at a 48-year low, a boost for President Donald Trump ahead of next week’s midterm elections and reason
Date: November 1, 2018 United States: U.S. Productivity Posts Best Back-to-Back Quarters Since 2015 Productivity gains in the U.S. posted the best back-to-back quarters since 2015, echoing a pickup in economic growth and offering some hope that faster expansion without stoking inflation is possible. The main measure of nonfarm business employee output per hour increased
Date: October 31, 2018 United States: Treasury Lifts Long-Term Debt Sales for Fourth Straight Quarter The U.S. Treasury Department will raise the amount of long-term debt it sells to $83 billion this quarter, again concentrating its increases of coupon-bearing debt on securities with five years or less to maturity. In its quarterly refunding announcement on
Date: October 30, 2018 United States: U.S. Plans More China Tariffs If Trump-Xi Meeting Fails, Sources Say The U.S. is preparing to announce by early December tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports if talks next month between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping fail to ease the trade war, three people familiar with the matter said.
