by Keel Point | Apr 17, 2023 | Articles and Videos
Last week inflation news was encouraging but not sufficiently positive to keep the Fed from tightening another 25 bp at its May 2-3 meetings. Another rate boost, coupled with slowing growth and negative first quarter earnings, will put downward pressure on stock...
by Steve Skancke, Ph.D. | Feb 6, 2023 | Articles and Videos
The Fed’s 25 bp interest rate increase and a surprising 517,000 new jobs in January, with the unemployment rate falling to 3.4% — a 53-year low — contributed to renewed confidence that the Fed can be bringing inflation down without putting millions of...