Federal Reserve Meeting Minutes Show Broad Support for Taper… The minutes of the September meeting suggests the central bank reduce bond purchases starting in mid-November. What it means— The ...
Quarter End – Q3 2021
October 18, 2021 At the End of Q3 2021 – Investors are confronting the long-ignored problem of inflation. With food, gasoline and home heating costs rising, the problem is no longer ...
Week In Review – October 11 2021
The U.S. Economy Created 194,000 Jobs in September, Widely Missing the Estimate of 500,000…The unemployment rate fell from 5.1% to 4.8%, as fewer people participated in the labor force. What it ...
Week In Review – October 4 2021
Spending Measure Passes, But Remaining Debt Ceiling Issue and Taper Talk Sink Markets… The House passed a continuing resolution to authorize spending through December 3, avoiding a government shutdown ...
Central banks have a lot of influence on investors, markets and economies.
For the last year or so, the Federal Reserve has been purchasing $120 billion of bonds every month to ensure United States markets remained liquid and interest rates remained low during the pandemic. ...