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Economic Update

CAN STOCKS REGAIN THEIR FOOTING THIS WEEK? Investors hope so after a very rough start to 2016. Declining oil prices and disappointing manufacturing data in both the U.S. and China helped trigger a global selloff: the major equity indices in Europe … Continue reading

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Economic Advisor – Weekly Update

The total number of out-of-work Americans covered by unemployment insurance during the week ending July 13 dropped to 2,997,000, a decline of 119,000 from the precious week’s revised level of 3,116,000, the Administration also reported. The four-week moving average was … Continue reading

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Economic Advisor – Weekly Update

Incomes and spending were a key newsmaker last week with personal income increasing in May by $69.4 billion 0.5 percent, and personal consumption expenditures PCE increasing by $29 billion, or 0.3 percent, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported last week. … Continue reading

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Weekly Update

Real estate was a key newsmaker this month with sales of existing single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops rising a solid 4.2 percent in May to hit an annual rate of 5.18 million, the National Association of Realtors reported last … Continue reading

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