To get a feel for where inflation may be headed, let's look at the latest economic data, beginning with jobs numbers. At the end of...
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Wealth Bytes: The Fed Remains Focused on Inflation
Last week, the Federal Reserve held its annual Jackson Hole, Wyoming symposium. Chairman Powell gave a summary speech, discussing their view on the different factors...
Aug 28, 2023
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Wealth Bytes: Retail Strength & Fed Minutes Likely to Lead to September Hike
With retails sales showing ongoing strength and an uptick in industrial production and capacity utilization, there are, again, indications of a potential soft landing for...
Aug 21, 2023
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Wealth Bytes: Is Inflation Possibly Leading to a Rate Hike? The Fed Is Likely Not Done
At the heart of every well-informed financial decision is a solid understanding of the current economic landscape. In our commitment to support your financial goals,...
Aug 14, 2023
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Wealth Bytes: Soft Landing or Stagflation?
The Mixed Economic Data Continues Not everyone is convinced the US will avoid a recession, but there seems to be an optimistic tilt toward the...
Aug 7, 2023
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Wealth Bytes: Are we at a cross-roads for the economy??
Growth in Durable Goods We begin with the US Durable Goods which came in with a month-over-month growth of 4.7%. However, when we take out...
Jul 31, 2023
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Wealth Bytes: Economic data is mixed, but mostly weaker coming into the last full week of July
Retail Sales are positive, but have slowed Last Tuesday, we saw the release of Retail Sales information with the monthly growth rate of 0.19% and...
Jul 24, 2023
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Wealth Bytes: Economic data continues to be mixed, but is more positive
CPI Continues a Downward Trend We begin this week's economic update with a reading on the CPI (Consumer Price Index) inflation rate. The headline rate...
Jul 17, 2023
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Wealth Bytes: Mixed Signs for US Economy
ISM Reading Falls, Trade Slips, Payrolls and Earnings Offer Positive Outlook At the end of last week we got readings from ISM, trade, payrolls, and...
Jul 10, 2023
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Wealth Bytes: Rolling Recession or Not?
New Home Sales Continue to Climb For the final week of June, the first piece of economic information to look at is new homes sales....
Jul 5, 2023
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