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3/19– Weekly Economic Highlights

The Federal Open Market Committee kept monetary policy unchanged at their meeting this week as expected, with the fed funds target rate in a range of 0.0% to 0.25%. The Fed also continues to purchase $80 billion of Treasuries per month, and $40 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities per month. The vote to keep policy […]

3/12– Weekly Economic Highlights

President Biden signed the $1.9 trillion fiscal relief plan yesterday, bringing the total amount of pandemic-related fiscal relief legislation in the last year to about $5.5 trillion. At this time last year, financial markets were in turmoil amid an uncertain global economic outlook. Over the past year, robust fiscal spending along with the Federal Reserve’s […]

3/5– Weekly Economic Highlights

U.S. nonfarm payrolls were stronger than expected in February, up 379,000, versus the Bloomberg consensus forecast of 200,000. January payrolls were also revised up by 117,000. Payrolls in the leisure and hospitality sector improved in February and were up 355,000, following a combined decline of 523,000 in December and January. The unemployment rate declined to […]