UPDATE: The CPI, NASDAQ, Gas Prices and Digital Health Investing
By Staff Reporters *** *** Today’s consumer price index [CPI] reading is expected to show that March prices surged 8.4% over last year. Treasury yields rose and stocks dropped in anticipation of...
View ArticleUPDATE: Palantir, T Bonds and the CPI
By Staff Reporters *** *** Palantir Technologies Inc., Peter Thiel’s single-biggest equity position, plummeted as much as 23% Monday after it reported widening losses and slow revenue growth. The...
View ArticleInflation, CPI and the PPI
By Staff Reporters *** DEFINITION: In finance, inflation is a general increase in prices of goods and services in an economy. When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods...
View ArticleUPDATE: CPI Triggers Stock Melt Down = KA-BOOM!
*** *** Stocks nosedived after a surprising inflation report showed prices rose more than expected last month. All three major averages logged their worst day since June 2020. Technology stocks led...
View ArticleUPDATE: Corporate Earnings Bearish?
By Staff Reporters *** Investors are eyeing this week’s Consumer Price Index report and sifting through corporate earnings reports, which could both bring bearish news to the market. DEFINITION:...
View ArticleThe CPI and Stock Markets
By Staff Reporters *** *** The consumer price index (CPI), the inflation report we dislike every month, dropped today and showed that price growth cooled off a bit in October (but is still far higher...
View ArticleWhat is the Elderly CPI?
The CPI-E [By staff reporters] We’ve written about the CPI and Chained CPI before on this ME-P. *** Q = So, what is the Elderly CPI? A = It is experimental CPI for the elderly called the CPI-E. *** ***...
View ArticleFOMC Prognostications?
By Staff Reporters *** *** Consumer price data will offer clues about the Federal Reserve’s next policy move, while quarterly results from big banks get fourth quarter earnings season underway. CITE:...
View ArticleDAILY UPDATE: Good CPI News and Higher Stock Markets
By Staff Reporters *** *** The December CPI report showed 59% of its components “are now in deflation,” Fundstrat’s Tom Lee said in a Friday note. That’s good news for the stock market, as a drop in...
View ArticleDAILY UPDATE: US Stocks UP!
By Staff Reporters *** *** U.S. stocks rose ahead of some key January inflation data this week, which will begin with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report. The economic calendar was dormant today,...
View ArticleDAILY UPDATE: The Metaverse, Nvidia, Tesla and Mixed US Equities
By Staff Reporters *** *** Microsoft (MSFT) ended a project that aimed to encourage the use of the Metaverse in industrial environments just four months after it was formed, according to a new report...
View ArticleINFLATION: Slowing … Slowly!
By Staff Reporters *** *** Consumer price data showed it may be a long and winding road back to normal inflation levels. While inflation continued to cool last month, it did so at a slow pace (prices...
View ArticleDAILY UPDATE: Banks that Paused, Charles Schwab, Vanguard and the Equity Markets
By Staff Reporters *** *** On Monday, Newsweek published a list of banks that had trading of shares halted. According to the NASDAQ Trader website, these banks were placed under a Volatility Trading...
View ArticleCPI REPORT: May Round-Up 2023
By Staff Reporters *** *** DEFINITION: A consumer price index (CPI) is a price index, the price of a weighted average market basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households. Changes in...
View ArticleDAILY UPDATE: Minority/BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month, Inflation and the...
By Staff Reporters *** *** July marks Minority/BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month A time when healthcare leaders and policymakers acknowledge the disparities that exist in behavioral health access...
View ArticleDAILY UPDATE: Inflation CPI, Rain, the Shutdown and Torn “Threads”
By Staff Reporters *** *** CPI: Here’s a breakdown of how different aisles and departments rose over the past 12 months: Cereals and bakery: increase 6% Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs: unchanged...
View ArticleFRIDAY 13th: Triskaidekaphobia
By Staff Reporters *** *** Triskaidekaphobia, or fear of the number 13, does not fit neatly into a clinical definition of a specific phobia. The number 13 is not an object or a situation, and it can...
View ArticleECONOMY: CPI Prices Steady Pending Government Shut-Down?
By Staff Reporters *** *** DEFINITION: In the USA shutdowns occur when funding legislation required to finance the Federal Government is not enacted before the next fiscal year begins. In a shutdown,...
View ArticleDAILY UPDATE: Impending C.P.I. and UPS
By Staff Reporters *** *** US Economists just polled by The Wall Street Journal forecast a mild 0.2% in increase in consumer prices in the first month of 2024. The inflation rate in the past 12 months...
View ArticleCPI LABOR DEPARTMENT FINANCIAL REPORT: Inflation Cools
By Staff Reporters SPONSOR: http://www.MarcinkoAssociates.com *** *** The Dow closed at a record high, while the other major indexes dipped slightly as investors await a slew of information this week....
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