Doug Porter
Doug Porter
Douglas "Doug" Porteris a former American football coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi Valley State University, Howard University, and Fort Valley State University, compiling a career college football record of 115–111–5. He was also an assistant coach at Grambling State University under Eddie Robinson. Porter was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008...
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I think Monday's decline is pretty modest after last week's sprint, so a bit of a pullback is not a complete surprise.
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There is a bit of risk because it will probably pump up real retail sales ... from all the various tax cuts.
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I suspect it was just a bout of profit taking, a bit of nervousness ahead of next week's Fed meeting. Not that anyone's expecting anything out of the Fed's next week, but I think there still are some lingering concerns about the longer-term interest rate outlook. Especially with oil prices pushing above $32 a barrel,
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These together will probably increase consumer spending and at the margin . . . it will put a bit of upward pressure on growth and could potentially put that much more pressure on the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates.
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Personally, I don't trust a lot of the drivers in town, they are crazy and careless, but they've been pretty good so far.
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Even though the headline number looked good on the TSE, there is still a slight concern that it's moving forward on vary narrow breadth,
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As the negatives keep stacking up for the province, we will see growth weaken .Ê.Ê. and begin to dig into the province's revenues.
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At the very least, it drums on the point that they'll continue to raise interest rates. By deductive reasoning, you'd assume that they don't have a big problem with the strength of the currency.
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We have a few economic numbers coming up that will probably shed some more light on just how strong the U.S. economy is, ... The perception is that nothing is slowing the economy down yet, especially with the markets going the way they are.
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Today's report reinforces the view that last year's energy price spike simply was not passed onto other prices.
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Obviously, consumers just ignored all the dire warnings and kept on spending.
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Simply put, Canada's balance of payments remains exceptionally strong. It is very tough to make the case that the Canadian dollar is wildly overvalued when the country continues to chalk up solid current account surpluses and net inflows in foreign direct investment.
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What it shows is that inventories are still in pretty good balance. There's no sign that there's any unwanted build-up.
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The recovery in the global financial backdrop is a key part of the outlook for tightening,