Market Watch

Fri May 17, 2024
The U.S. Dollar Index is +0.17% today, building on yesterday’s 0.11% gain that came after touching a 6-week low at 104.08. The dollar remains [...]
Wed May 15, 2024
Consumer Price data released today for April largely matched estimates: CPI M/M +0.3% vs +0.4% est; CPI M/M Ex Food and Energy +0.3% matching [...]
Tue May 14, 2024
Producer Prices for April (prices received by domestic producers for their output) increased 0.5% M/M, higher than the +0.3% estimate. And M/M PPI excluding [...]
Fri May 10, 2024
Several Fed members are scheduled to speak today in a variety of venues, beginning with Bowman at 9am ET, then Logan at 10am, Kashkari [...]
Thu May 9, 2024
U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims were 231k for the week ending May 4th, above the 212k estimate and the highest reading since August of last [...]
Tue May 7, 2024
Friday’s Nonfarm Payrolls miss (175k jobs added vs. 240k estimate) was enough ‘bad’ economic news to counteract some of the recent positive data and [...]
Thu May 2, 2024
In its rate policy statement yesterday the FOMC added the comment that ‘In recent months, there has been a lack of further progress toward [...]
Wed May 1, 2024
Today the FOMC announces its 3rd rate policy decision of the year. No change is expected to the current 5.50% target rate with only [...]