Anthony Crescenzi

Anthony Crescenzi
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For so long, an individual who owned a small business or had influence over pricing somehow, would say, 'Prices aren't rising, so we can't raise prices, either.' Now they can see, with this data and through anecdotal evidence, that others are raising prices, and they may feel they can raise their prices now.
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When risk aversion is declining, money will flow out of the safe-haven Treasury market into riskier assets, ... High-yield bonds have increased in price in the past week; holders of junk bonds are doing well right now.
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Each one-dollar change in oil prices has a $7 billion per year impact on consumer spending. So the gain in oil prices recently, from $25 a barrel to $37, is an enormous influence on the economy -- $84 billion, in other words.
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Greenspan's comments have been so specific to the markets and costs. The price index was worse than the market would have liked.
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Greenspan's comments have been so specific to the markets and costs, ... The price index was worse than the market would have liked.
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The inflation news due out on Friday with the producer price index and next Tuesday with the consumer price index will probably be unfriendly,
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What's the expression? 'If your neighbor loses his job, it's a recession, but if you lose your job, it's a depression?' Maybe it depends on who's making the definition.
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It would be a mistake to get bearish on the consumer now. It's been a mistake to be bearish on the consumer for many years.
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It would be a mistake to get bearish on the consumer now, ... It's been a mistake to be bearish on the consumer for many years.
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It was very well subscribed -- and that was why they raised it and it ended up being $4.8 billion.
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I've been calling for the bond yield since the beginning of the year to get toward 6 percent,
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The risk aversion was a touch smaller today, but it was more of a toe-step into the markets that were beaten up badly.
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Right now we have to take a step back and say how much further can we go with this news. Where fed funds are now, at 6.5 percent, makes it somewhat difficult for the (bond) market to trade higher or lower in yield.
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Even if the economy slows, there will still be inflation, ... But there comes a point when the Fed won't pay attention to inflation because of a slowing economy.