Doug Porter
Doug Porter
Douglas "Doug" Porteris a former American football coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi Valley State University, Howard University, and Fort Valley State University, compiling a career college football record of 115–111–5. He was also an assistant coach at Grambling State University under Eddie Robinson. Porter was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008...
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I suspect it was just a bout of profit taking, a bit of nervousness ahead of next week's Fed meeting. Not that anyone's expecting anything out of the Fed's next week, but I think there still are some lingering concerns about the longer-term interest rate outlook. Especially with oil prices pushing above $32 a barrel,
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What has changed in recent weeks is long-term interest rates across the globe are starting to feel the heat from Fed tightening and now from rate hikes from all kinds of quarters, including Japan and Europe which they really hadn't had to deal with before.
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The overwhelming view is that the bank will continue to raise interest rates, despite the latest strength in the Canadian dollar.
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At the very least, it drums on the point that they'll continue to raise interest rates. By deductive reasoning, you'd assume that they don't have a big problem with the strength of the currency.
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There was a strong hint in their latest minutes that they're talking about half percentage point moves in interest rates rather than just these baby steps of a quarter percentage point move.
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These together will probably increase consumer spending and at the margin . . . it will put a bit of upward pressure on growth and could potentially put that much more pressure on the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates.
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The interest rate differential continues to attract money to the U.S..
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I think what the market is waiting for is some signs of stabilization in the global economy, and especially the U.S. economy.
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I think it's quite possible revenues will come in on the high side of expectations simply because we've had very robust corporate profit growth over the last year.
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I think there are more pieces of good news here than bad news.
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I think Monday's decline is pretty modest after last week's sprint, so a bit of a pullback is not a complete surprise.
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Some of the weakness in the broader market was probably due to the fact that New York suffered a fairly large sell-off.
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Today's report reinforces the view that last year's energy price spike simply was not passed onto other prices.
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We have a few economic numbers coming up that will probably shed some more light on just how strong the U.S. economy is, ... The perception is that nothing is slowing the economy down yet, especially with the markets going the way they are.