Maria Ramirez
Maria Ramirez
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Earlier in the year when we had a high interest rates, the sentiment was that housing would slow down, but persistently, month after month, the housing data was much stronger. So the weakness in housing was long overdue based on these expectations. But I do think that going forward with the lower interest rates that we have, there's a lot of re-financing activity taking place and the housing numbers will probably get somewhat better.
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People are sort of reassessing interest rates ahead of next week's Fed meeting as well, ... Tomorrow, they'll be looking to see what the jobs report says about the strength of the economy.
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Even with a lot of economic news out today and this week, there are ongoing questions about the economy, and about what the Fed will do or say next week,
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The economic numbers were generally upbeat, ... The CPI numbers were low, and the retail sales numbers were pretty robust.
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In the last couple of weeks, market participants forgot about the idea of a tightening, ... People woke up to the idea that maybe the tightening isn't over.
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I think that merging the resources of the two certainly is going to give some others a run for the money,
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The price of oil is going to be the overwhelming factor in how concerned people are about the economy in the short term and about the strength of consumer spending.
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The decline in the core rate is very good news; it confirms that inflation continues to remain subdued, ... It shows that prices outside of energy are actually falling, which is great news for the Federal Reserve.