Ahead of the Fed

The Fed’s statement is due out at 2 pm, and they’ll almost certainly raise rates.

Earlier today, we had two key economic reports.

The first is that retail sales rose by 0.1% last month. Excluding gasoline, retail sales also rose by 0.1%.

Industrial production dropped by 0.4% last month. Part of that was due to warmer weather impacting utilities.

Posted by on December 14th, 2016 at 12:53 pm


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