

Federal Reserve Meeting to Determine Prime Rate
The bid news was the Federal Reserve meeting The FOMC met again this month to decide whether to raise the prime rate. It looked to some like they might, but in the end more weak data gave them justification to put it off. Almost all experts expect them to raise the...
It Was Supposed To Be a Quiet Week…
This week was supposed to be quiet. And was when the markets were closed. Then the Japanese government announced that they will temporarily stop buying US Treasury Debt. Temporarily. Who knows when they will come back into our market? Hopefully it will be next week....
No Big Changes
Another quiet week in the markets, typical for late summer. What could have moved the markets and didn’t were the Consumer Price Index , which was unchanged, and housing starts were up 0.5%, building permits unchanged. So flat, flat, flat. The next day the data for...