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...Well, those CPI [Consumer Price Index] numbers are still hanging over this market like a hammer. There's a big fear that Alan Greenspan has no room to move. The rally at the end of the day was a good sign, although it'd be more encouraging if it had happened on its own instead of on a Fed rumor...
Wednesday, the Labor Department reported that the Consumer Price Index, the headliner of U.S. inflation gauges, rose 0.6 percent in January of this year, the biggest increase since last March and double economists' forecasts. The report blamed big price increases for natural gas (17.4 percent, the largest one-month increase on record), cigarettes (2 percent) and housing (1 percent...
...reduce their class sizes, many Core courses have instated lotteries, which serve more as an index of the problem than a solution. The Core is not responsible for all lotteries at Harvard--but the restrictions it imposes and its many biennial classes magnify run-of-the-mill lotteries into true bloodbaths, such as that accompanying Historical Study B-61: "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice" in the fall...
...still getting out and spending money. Consumer spending accounts for two thirds of the U.S. economy, and it's a big factor in the intensity of any slowdown. So although consumers' expectations of the next six months are pretty bleak, as we saw in this week's consumer confidence index report of January, that pessimism isn't showing up with nearly as much force in their day-to-day activity. (Exhibit B: Surprisingly strong January car sales...
...first, the National Association of Purchasing Management index due out Thursday, and the next unemployment report. Until then, it seems that caution prevailed on the FOMC board, and you can bet Greenspan got the OK from his colleagues for some unilateral movement if he feels the need...