U.S. stocks had substantial gains this week while foreign stocks generally had slight losses, despite threats of tariffs on another $200BN of Chinese imports. The 10-year treasury yield was nearly unchanged while the U.S. dollar gained against a basket of currencies. Commodities including oil, gains and gold were lower for the week. Crude oil prices fell despite a large drawdown in U.S. inventories.
In the numbers this week:
- The Labor department reported
- First time claims for unemployment fell 18,000 to a seasonally adjusted 214,000 in the prior holiday week. The four week moving average of claims fell 1750 to a seasonally adjusted 223,000. The week before last week was revised u to 232,000.
- The producer-price index rose 0.3% in June and 3.4% from a year ago. Excluding volatile food and energy, producer-prices were also up 0.3% in June and 2.7% from a year ago.
- The consumer-price index rose 0.1% in June. Excluding volatile food and energy consumer prices rose 0.2%. From a year earlier, consumer prices rose 2.9% and 2.3% excluding volatile food and energy.
- Import prices fell 0.4% in June but are up 4.3% from a year ago. Excluding fuel, import prices fell 0.3% in June and 1.5% from a year ago.
- The Energy Information Administration weekly report is here wpsrsummaryattached. Also the EIA reported
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- U.S. Crude oil production held steady at 10.9 million barrels per day.
- Storage of natural gas rose 51BN cubic feet.
- According to Baker Hughes, In the past week the number of active oil rigs was unchanged at 863 and the number of active gas rigs increased 2 to 189.
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