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The yield on the 10 year U.S. Treasury continues to retreat today and has been declining since Tuesday to below 1.6 percent which comes despite improving U.S. inflation data and March retail sales reported earlier [...]

U.S. retail sales beat market expectations, rising 9.8 percent in March, and likely received a spending boost from $1400 stimulus checks that were sent in direct payments to Americans over the month in the latest [...]

A new inflation report this morning indicates that U.S. inflation continues to climb higher and confirms the upward inflation trend that has occurred over the past several weeks across the U.S. economy. The U.S. Bureau [...]

First quarter 2021 earnings season gets underway this week, led by a variety of financial earnings, a CPI inflation report on Tuesday, and U.S. retail sales for March due on Thursday. Charles Schwab Corp. reports [...]

U.S. equity indexes are mixed on Friday and remain near historic records following the release of an inflation report (PPI- Producer Price Index) this morning from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that shows rising [...]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised their world economic outlook with updated growth projections that includes an acknowledgement that the global economy is on firmer ground but with divergent recoveries and amid high uncertainty. [...]

U.S. equity indexes opened higher to record levels on Monday while European and some Asian markets (Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong) are closed for Easter Monday. Factory orders and the the ISM services index (March) [...]