Lynn Reaser
Lynn Reaser
actively businesses confidence hiring point
Businesses are regaining confidence to the point where they are now actively hiring new workers.
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Overall inflation remains quite benign. Companies selling to consumers and businesses have limited pricing power.
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The underlying trend still seems to be relatively low, but the jobless claims will reflect the destruction to business activity in the region during the next two to three weeks.
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They (investors) tend to overreact to individual economic reports which may be more statistical noise than an underlying trend which takes three to four months to develop, ... They tend to pay equal attention to almost any report that is relevant, and some are more significant than others.
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These numbers really indicate some pockets of weakness. It suggests manufacturers are having a difficult time in some sectors and it does suggest some areas of slowing within the economy.
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This is likely to become a much bigger issue as we near the end of the year.
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The Federal Reserve cannot address directly supply disruptions and really the best support they can give in this situation is to keep the economy on a sound footing with low inflation.
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The Fed is likely to acknowledge some dampening in growth from rising energy costs. But it will suggest the underlying economy is solid and although inflation has been in check recently, there are upside risks going forward,
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It will be ugly. In any case it's only one month's number, but it could either alleviate or exacerbate inflation concerns which have recently accelerated.
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We expect the 12th consecutive increase in the target fed funds rate and really no change in the tactics deployed in recent meetings.
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We don't think we are going to have another recession ... We think there is enough stimulus in the pipeline, enough positive news in there to allow the economy to keep on a growth track for the next year.
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Earlier in the summer, the big concern was accounting, but the issue now is whether the economy is going to hold up,
close peak
We could very much be close to the peak at this time.
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This number shows that inflation is in a benign mode for the U.S. economy.