International trade contributes mixed signals on import prices as fuel and major trade partners’ prices offset each other. Prices for all import items from Canada, Mexico, and Europe increased by 3.2 percent […]
Core Inflation remains over the Federal Reserve Target 2% mostly driven by Cost of Shelter. However, Cost of Shelter shows a lagged effect from monetary tightening. It is a matter of time and […]
Despite increases in sector productivity and median home prices, recent events on commission distribution and high interest rates on mortgages have led the real estate business activity to slow down in the […]
The US economy is keeping track on a healthy and sound equilibrium as hiring, workers, and unemployment show encouraging data. On June 2024 the 4.1% US Unemployment Rate shows little change as […]
Employees quitted jobs at a lower pace gearing up for the summer 2024. Current BLS Quits Data could have spillovers on Monetary Policy, Mortgages, and Remote Work. Voluntary separations from employment went […]
Fear of increasing inflation in the U.S. appear to be the trigger behind the market volatility of previous weeks. Recent gains in hourly compensation to workers have had analysts measuring the effect […]
One month of weak payroll data does not make a crisis. The US economy appears to have added only 160,000 new jobs during the month of April in 2016, the Bureau of […]
Main national economic indicators reveal a solidifying moment of the American economy. In spite of job losses in mining and oil-related sectors, total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 242,000 in February; and […]
Press Release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. All employees Real average hourly earnings for all employees increased 0.4 percent from December to January, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics […]
The puzzling aspect of recent data on inflation has been the deflation trajectory forged by oil prices. The index on energy by itself has fallen 28.7 percent over the year. Just in […]
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