The dollar reversed course last week after the latest
Consumer Price Index reading, but then this week marked yet another reversal, as the dollar began strengthening again while gold prices plunged.
The yield on the 10 - year Treasury note, which is the best market indicator of where mortgage rates are going, did briefly touch 3.00 % on Wednesday but quickly retreated back down on Thursday after
the Consumer Price Index reading came in below expectations.
Not exact matches
Ahead of the Fed's announcement, the Labor Department released its latest
reading of the
Consumer Price Index, which rose 0.5 % in November from a year earlier.
Finally, while inflation
readings have disappointed since February, a weaker dollar should ultimately contribute to driving inflation higher, as it has a three - to - six - month lagged correlation with the
Consumer Price Index.
The
Consumer Price Index did reach 2.8 % earlier in the year but has since fallen to 2.0 % as of the October
reading (source Bloomberg as of 11/24/2017).
Using daily spot
prices for platinum group metals, gold and crude oil, daily levels of a broad U.S. stock market
index, monthly U.S.
consumer and producer
price indexes and monthly U.S. industrial production levels during July 1992 through December 2011, they find that: Keep
Reading
Using gold
price in U.S. dollars, the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) and values of several currencies, mostly during January 1975 (the end of the government - fixed gold price era) through March 2012, they conclude that: Keep Re
price in U.S. dollars, the U.S.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) and values of several currencies, mostly during January 1975 (the end of the government - fixed gold price era) through March 2012, they conclude that: Keep Re
Price Index (CPI) and values of several currencies, mostly during January 1975 (the end of the government - fixed gold
price era) through March 2012, they conclude that: Keep Re
price era) through March 2012, they conclude that: Keep
Reading
Hansen's comments come as gold
prices manage to hold near session highs, following an in - line
reading in January's
Consumer Price Index and rising geopolitical worries after President Donald Trump announced that he fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replacing him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
To get the real rate, you subtract the current
consumer price index (CPI)
reading, or inflation, from the government bond yield.
Using monthly
consumer price indexes (not seasonally adjusted) for the four countries and monthly returns for spot gold (bullion) in the four associated currencies since January 1968, monthly survey - based U.S. inflation expectations since January 1978, and monthly returns on the Philadelphia Gold and Silver
Index (XAU) as a proxy for gold stocks since January 1984, all through December 2014, they find that: Keep
Reading
The dollar fell across the board as traders responded to news the headline
Consumer Price Index (CPI) printed +0.2 % month - over-month compared to last month's +0.5 %
reading.
Using worldwide auction data spanning 1999 (the first year of representative coverage in the source database) through 2010 (3,952 total sales), along with the contemporaneous values of the U.S.
Consumer Price Index and returns for other worldwide asset markets, they find that: Keep
Reading
Using monthly total returns in pounds sterling for the selected asset classes and values of the UK
consumer price index during 1970 through 2015, they find that: Keep
Reading
Using monthly gold
prices and U.S.
Consumer Price Index data during January 2001 through September 2013, he finds that: Keep
Reading
Two other categories of significant economic
readings are scheduled for release this week: inflation data — the Producer
Price Index on Tuesday and
Consumer Price Index on Wednesday, and Manufacturing data (Empire State Manufacturing Survey) along with Industrial Production on Monday, and Philadelphia Fed Survey on Thursday.
The
Consumer Price Index did reach 2.8 % earlier in the year but has since fallen to 2.0 % as of the October
reading (source Bloomberg as of 11/24/2017).
The same food and energy that is in CPI (
Consumer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics,) is in the commodity
indices like the S&P GSCI and DJCI, and more energy has provided more inflation protection since energy is
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To learn how to take advantage of inflation,
read How to Profit From Inflation and The
Consumer Price Index: A Friend to Investors.
It also looks like it's going to be a fairly light addition to your
reading list, gravitas notwithstanding, because at the end of the first post, we're promised a following entry on the «
Consumer Price Index Enhancement Initiative» — next month.