The Price Of Crude Oil Is Well Off Its Recent Peak
View from the Observation Deck 1. The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil stood at $85.61 per barrel […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil stood at $85.61 per barrel […]
Housing starts declined 8.1% in September to a 1.439 million annual rate, lagging the consensus expected 1.461 million. Starts are […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. Investors directing capital into mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continued to favor passive […]
Industrial production increased 0.4% in September (+0.7% including revisions to prior months), beating the consensus expected gain of 0.1%. Utilities […]
The Nobel Prize in Economics was recently awarded to former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, as well as professors Douglas […]
Retail sales were unchanged in September (+0.1% including revisions to prior months), lagging the consensus expected gain of 0.2%. Retail […]
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4% in September, well above the consensus expected +0.2%. The CPI is up 8.2% […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. As of the close on 10/7/22, the price of natural gas stood at $6.75 […]
The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.4% in September, coming in above the consensus expected +0.2%. Producer prices are up […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. S&P 500 Index stock buybacks totaled $219.64 billion (preliminary) in Q2’22, down 21.84% from […]
Recent economic reports further undermine the politically-motivated argument from earlier this year that the US was already in a recession. […]
