1 October, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The BOJ Tankan also includes an outlook on USD/JPY (109.29 vs. 108.31)
The BOJ Tankan also includes an outlook on USD/JPY (109.29 vs. 108.31)
I posted on the Bank of Japan Tankan here:
Bank of Japan Tankan (Q3): Large Manufacturing Index 22 (vs. expected 18)
Also included in the BOJ survey is a currency outlook. in brief:
1 October, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on What’s in the Latest Tax Reform Package?
What’s in the Latest Tax Reform Package?
The GOP recently released a “framework” for tax reform legislation. The document spells out the party’s top priorities for tax reform and offers several big clues about how the new tax system would work. Here are some of the highlights relating to individual (as opposed to business) tax reform.
1 October, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Australia – Melbourne Institute Inflation Gauge (September) 0.3% m/m (prior 0.1% m/m)
Australia – Melbourne Institute Inflation Gauge (September) 0.3% m/m (prior 0.1% m/m)
Official CPI data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics is once a
quarter, but today’s data is a private survey monthly data point
inflation:
1 October, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The New York Post: Trump dedicates golf trophy to hurricane victims
The New York Post: Trump dedicates golf trophy to hurricane victims
President Donald Trump offered a gift of goodwill Sunday to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico and survivors of the deadly storms in Florida and Texas as well— a golf trophy.
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1 October, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Bank of Japan Tankan (Q3): Large Manufacturing Index 22 (vs. expected 18)
Bank of Japan Tankan (Q3): Large Manufacturing Index 22 (vs. expected 18)
The BOJ’s survey of manufacturing and service companies designed to assess business conditions in Japan.
Tankan Large Manufacturing Index, 22
– highest since September 2007
Tankan Large Manufacturing Outlook, 19
1 October, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Visualizing America’s Disappearing Workforce
Visualizing America’s Disappearing Workforce
In his September 2017 paper entitled ‘Where Have All the Workers Gone? An Inquiry into the Decline of the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate’, Alan B. Krueger of Princeton University explores the dramatic fall in labor force participation in the U.S. from 1997 to 2017.
1 October, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Outside the Box: This is the time to protect your capital, not to take big bets in the markets
Outside the Box: This is the time to protect your capital, not to take big bets in the markets
The last time the world saw a similar combination of synchronized global growth, easy financial conditions and super-low economic and financial market volatility was in 2006 — and that didn’t end well.
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