June Fed Meeting
The Federal Reserve completed its June meeting, and kept the fed funds rate unchanged. Your bullet points ahead of Chairman Powell’s 2:30PM press conference. The fed funds rate remains unchanged at 5.25% – 5.50%. Earlier this year, most market participants expected the Fed to cut by either the January meeting or the March one. … Read more
May CPI is 3.3%
This piece was originally published on June 12th, 2024 Overview: Today, we got the May Consumer Price Index (CPI) report which showed an overall increase of 3.3% unadjusted in the last year and 0.2% vs last month. That’s slightly below last month’s 3.4% and expectations of 3.4%. The 0.2% monthly increase was below the 0.3% … Read more
Weekly Points – June 7th, 2024 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Economic Doomsday Issue
Ok – it’s a bit of a clickbait title. I confess. The economic news this week wasn’t great, but we’re not actually at doomsday. I’ve been making the point that we’re in a bifurcated economy where a few people doing extremely well pulls up the overall statistics while hiding the fact that most of the … Read more
Guest Post on Talen Energy $TLNE
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to do a webinar with Enrique Abeyta of HX Research on Talen Energy $TLNE. Enrique did a fantastic job making the case for why Talen could double from current prices. That video is linked in the piece below. This morning, HX Research published an update on Talen … Read more