Alan Ruskin

Alan Ruskin
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Quite clearly, energy is still adding to consumer prices, but everything else is rather subdued, ... As far as goods are concerned, either at the consumer or producer level, their is no sign of inflation.
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It is too early to suggest the deficit has peaked but it fits with Greenspan's views of the early signs of stabilization,
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It's certainly a good sign as far as future pipeline inflation is concerned, ... The goods side of the inflation equation is very encouraging.
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we still don't have any clear signals that inflation is on the way up.
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I think the only clear sign that would really tell you that inflation should be rising at this point is, of course, the rise in hourly earnings, ... But at this stage, from what we've seen, corporations seem to be taking it in terms of lower profit margins and, therefore, not necessarily pushing up prices.
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These cross influences are confused enough that one has to stick with the broader trend that we still view as bond negative.
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These minutes have caught the market somewhat off-guard,
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Employment slipped for the third time since November, and is now back below October levels, ... Since weakness in services employment has dominated the soft employment trends in this cycle, this data will tend to deflate rising expectations of a decent payrolls number.
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There should be no doubt that instability in the region should have a profound impact on the long-term risk assessment globally.
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While the data is clearly dollar positive, I would expect that the market will quickly shift back to the attention it is giving to Fed policy.
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It feels to me it will require something fresh to really get it going again.
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I don't think per se jettisoning Snow would be seen as dollar negative. The mere fact that we've got a change of guard isn't necessarily dollar negative. These things happen. Presidents do change personnel.
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I don't think people want to stand in the way of this even if they believe there's underlying value. With equities giving it a kick, you're getting more selling pressure as well.
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Poor employment trends clearly are weighing on sentiment, ... The (IBD) data is consistent with a meaningful decline in the Michigan survey.