Brian Fabbri
Brian Fabbri
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It adds a little more power to yesterday's wording change in the Fed statement. Fifty (basis point interest rate hike) is coming, maybe not in May, but June is really starting to stand out now.
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The message of solid growth and inflation at the top end of the comfort zone may mean that the Fed is keeping all its options open, but that more tightening 'may' be required, and that the data will decide.
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The markets have clearly responded to Greenspan's testimony. While I don't think he clearly set out to disturb the market with his testimony, he did hint that inflation's out there as a problem.... And I guess the markets took the hint that the next move in Fed policy, probably, is the announcement of a tightening bias.
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The markets have clearly responded to Greenspan's testimony, ... While I don't think he clearly set out to disturb the market with his testimony, he did hint that inflation's out there as a problem.... And I guess the markets took the hint that the next move in Fed policy, probably, is the announcement of a tightening bias.
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Electric utility output was down a bit because we had such cool August, but otherwise, manufacturing was pretty hot.
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Rapid economic growth in the first quarter will not deter (the Fed) from their intended pause in tightening policy after another hike in the May meeting.
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Production should be up, and it should be up fairly strongly,
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Typically, consumers are waiting for all kinds of deals before they go out and purchase an automobile. They didn't get them in July, so perhaps they're going to wait until maybe August.
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Business confidence is very low, and thus they're maintaining as cautious an approach as possible to their activity, whether that's hiring, building inventory or anything else.
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Sentiment is finally beginning to show that consumers are getting a little bit unnerved about higher gasoline prices.
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This year, retailers probably hired a normal number of people. We'll wind up with a large seasonal factor boosting a normal number, and end up with a large gain in retail help.
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There are an awful lot of cost pressures in the system. While they may not be manifest in final goods prices just yet, the numbers tell you that, unless companies find new ways to cut their costs, profit margins are going to be squeezed.
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We had a big decline (in September) and I thought maybe there would some small rebound, but we didn't get it. It was orders that improved very dramatically and that is a positive, but the employment component is a bit worrying.
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It's not the dollar that's weakened a great deal, but rather the perception in the financial markets that the yen is strengthening a great deal, ... So it's a yen problem.