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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While there are still concerns about further Fed rate hikes down the road, it does seem as if the Fed's on hold for now and investors are starting to reassess which companies still have the best long-term prospects,
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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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What has changed in recent weeks is long-term interest rates across the globe are starting to feel the heat from Fed tightening and now from rate hikes from all kinds of quarters, including Japan and Europe which they really hadn't had to deal with before.
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There's been a slight upward revision of expectations for Fed tightening, which would keep the spread between rates locked in. The earlier view was that the spread might narrow.
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The market is expecting strong first-quarter growth and employment cost numbers, which could signal more rate increases from the Fed down the road than what people are currently expecting.
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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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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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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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The recovery in the global financial backdrop is a key part of the outlook for tightening,
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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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Obviously, consumers just ignored all the dire warnings and kept on spending.
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We've seen rising gasoline prices almost without fail for the past five years now and it has made incredibly little impact on other prices,
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We're a clear-cut loser from the spike we're seeing in energy prices.