By Mises Institute By Mises Institute – Markets convey information through prices in ways that resemble how language conveys information. But prices are not the whole story of how markets convey and mobilize information. Gluts and shortages of goods and services… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – Tian Yang, Variant Perception’s Head of Research, recently covered their must-read Understanding Leading Economic Indicators report with FS Insider. Yang explains the three major categories that most economic data fall into, how leading… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Jill Mislinski – Let’s do some analysis of the Consumer Price Index, the best-known measure of inflation. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) divides all expenditures into eight categories and assigns a relative size to each. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Oil Price – Strong global oil demand growth, quickly falling inventories, and geopolitical issues from Iran to Venezuela could push oil prices to as high as $100 a barrel in 2019, Bank of America Merrill Lynch says. …read more From:: Financial Sense

FS Staff – The Federal Reserve and other central banks lowered rates to such dramatic levels after 2008 that we ended with the lowest levels in 5,000 years of recorded history. Since then, the Fed now realizes that it needs to normalize not because the economy… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff – Financial Sense Newshour just spoke with Craig “Bullseye” Johnson from Piper Jaffray to get his outlook on the market. Johnson believes the corrective phase that started in February is likely not over and provided some downside targets for the S&P… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Gary Shilling – When supply is plentiful, the buyer has more power than the seller. That’s certainly true in the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China. And a trade confrontation already exists so the important question is, will it escalate to the level… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Urban Carmel – The macro data from the past month continues to mostly point to positive growth. On balance, the evidence suggests the imminent onset of a recession is unlikely. The bond market agrees with the macro data. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff – Chris Steele at ITR Economics recently gave an update on their commodity and economic outlook with FS Insider. They expect a slowdown around the 2019 timeframe and commodities to generally start peaking out in the months ahead, with the exception… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Patrick O’Hare – The spread between the 10-yr Treasury note and the 2-yr Treasury note dropped below 50 basis points on April 9 and it has remained below 50 basis points since then. It is currently at 49 basis points, up from… …read more From:: Financial Sense