Breitbart Business Digest: Fed May Start Pushing Back on the Market This Month
What is it going to take to move the market off its conviction that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September?
What is it going to take to move the market off its conviction that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September?
Trump’s record on manufacturing jobs far outshines the Biden-Harris record.
In an act of political expediency veiled as economic policy, the Biden administration this week announced its support for national rent control.
The indexes for new orders, employment, and shipments all turned positive in July.
The labor market has cooled in recent months.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled a national rent control scheme capping annual rent increases at $55.
Summer heat boosted utility production but factory output remains sluggish.
High interest rates are still weighing down building in the single-family home market.
The federal funds futures market now implies a near certainty—a 98 percent chance—that the Fed cuts at its September meeting and then over a 90 percent chance that it cuts again in either November or December.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared to new record highs on Tuesday after Donald Trump appeared at the Republican National Convention on Monday night. The Dow rose by 730 points, or 1.8 percent, its best day since June of last
Inflation may not be dead after all.
The strength of consumer spending undermines the case for a Fed rate cut before election day.
Republicans focused their attention on inflation and President Joe Biden’s economy on Monday night at the Republican National Convention.
There was a brief explosion of interest on Monday morning in the idea that the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates at its July meeting. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell effectively shot down the idea on Monday afternoon.
The Dow hit a record high on Monday morning while the other major indexes rose close to previous highs.
An inflation election highly favors Republicans.
Inflation is still a big weight on consumer views about economy.
Bidenflation is not done with America yet.
A Fed rate cut on the eve of the election would inevitably be seen as a partisan political gift to incumbent Joe Biden and would invite backlash from Republicans.
After the June decline, prices are up 18.8 percent since Biden took office. During the same three-and-a-half-year period of Donald Trump’s presidency, prices rose just 5.3 percent. Prior to the pandemic period, prices rose 6.2 percent under Donald Trump.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell explicitly refused to offer forward guidance about interest rate policy in his Capitol Hill testimony this week, which we think is an indication that a rate cut in September is unlikely.
The Biden administration is finally cracking down on Mexican imports that use steel or aluminum from China by imposing tariffs.
A sign of confidence in growth for the second half of the year.
The latest polling indicates that Republicans are well-positioned to take advantage of voter unhappiness about inflation and the U.S. economy and that these issues may be decisive in November.
Most Americans consider inflation a very serious problem and think it will play a major role in the upcoming election.
Is the U.S. manufacturing sector expanding or contracting? It depends who you ask.
U.S. construction spending took a hit in May, as businesses and homebuilders pulled back on projects due to stubbornly high interest rates.
President Biden demonstrated again last night that he is completely untethered from the truth about the American economy and unprepared to discuss the nation’s economic challenges.
Year to date, shares of the athletic apparel company are down 29 percent.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled a person accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of civil fraud has a right to a trial by jury before a federal judge, rejecting the agency’s authority to bring enforcement actions and assess fines through internal tribunals.
Inflation took a breather in May, cooling to its lowest annual rate in over three years, according to key data eyed by the Federal Reserve. The core personal consumption expenditures price index, which excludes food and energy prices, nudged up
In fact, it was 6.4 percent.
Biden started out the presidential debate by falsely claiming the economy was in a “free fall” when he took office.
Trump has a chance to defend his title of “Tariff Man” in tonight’s debate. We’re hoping he takes it.
The jump in inflation as 2024 started was even worse than previously thought.
Notable economists, including Janet Yellen’s husband, claim without evidence that Trump’s policies will be inflationary. They never warned us about Bidenflation.
Wall Street and the Federal Reserve have been wrong about a lot of things over the last few years. And now it looks like they’re going to be wrong about how long inflation will stay high.
Sales of new single-family homes fell 11.3 percent to an annual pace of 619,000, the lowest since November, data from the Census Bureau showed Wednesday.
The biggest underpriced risk in the market is still a hike from the Federal Reserve.
The expectations index fell even further below the recession threshold it first crossed five months ago.