Today’s Issue Cluster: US Labor & Economy
Fed – The Inflation Cycle May Have Turned
US – Americans are returning to the far-flung suburbs
Cotton – The other globally glutted commodity
US – Mar: ISM Nonmanufacturing Below Expectations; 56.5 from 56.9 / WSJ / R / AP
US – Mar: Markit services highest since August; 59.2 from 57.1 / R *
US – Falling Treasury Yields Raise Flags About Economy WSJ *
US – How serious is the slowdown? ft *
US – Consumers Should Emerge From Hibernation WSJ *
US – Americans Are Saving More, But for How Much Longer? wsj / B * * *
US – Coincident Indexes increased in 46 states / cr *
US – Companies Bring More Foreign Profit Home WSJ *
US – More Regulations Mean More Business For Outsourcers IBD
Fed – Wary over US jobs but will wait to study trend FT / WSJ / FT *
Fed – The Inflation Cycle May Have Turned wsj *
Fed – Rate Rise Must Come to Terms With Investors WSJ *
US – Banks Are Poised to Profit From Forex Tumult WSJ *
US – Banks target Elizabeth Warren’s ‘rogue’ watchdog FT *
US – Banks Shift Bond Portfolios WSJ *
US – Banks Keep Loans Close to Home WSJ *
US – Regional Banks Fill Industrial Niche WSJ * *
US – New Bank Formation Weakest in 50 Years wsj * *
US – Home-Price Growth Moderates WSJ / b * *
US – Home Prices Are Surging 13 Times Faster Than Wages B * *
US – Cities where houses are underwater / wapo * *
US – Housing Waits–and Waits–on Millennials wsj *
US – Americans are returning to the far-flung suburbs wapo * *
US – Vacation home market heating up WSJ * *
US – Reis Office Vacancy Rate declined in Q1 / cr *
US – AIA Architecture Billings Increases Slightly / cr *
US – Companies cut back sharply on hiring FT / R * *
US – Slowing Job Growth Tests Economy WSJ / NYT / AP / B *
US – ‘A Wake-Up Call About the Impact of the Strong Dollar’ b * *
US – The March Jobs Report in Charts / wsj * * *
US – Wage Growth Remains Largely in Check WSJ / b *
US – Low Continuing Claims May Not Be Good WSJ *
US – McDonald’s Joins Trend in Raising Pay WSJ / FT / B *
US – State Minimum Wage Map / bp *
US – Car-Making Boom? Not for Auto-Industry Workers WSJ *
US – The changing geography of employment ft * *
F&B – Rising Demand Sweetens Sugar Prices WSJ
F&B – Health drive whets drink industry’s thirst for sugar alternative FT * *
Cotton – With polyester, serves as a microcosm for globalization r *
Cotton – The other globally glutted commodity q * * * *
The most popular MLB team in every county bi *
