Question

Can you write a 2 page analysis on our current macroeconomics (U.S.)? Inflation rate? GDP? Evaluate return variables, oil prices, interest rates, politics etc. post your references.

Answer 1

• The US economy advanced an annualized 2.2 percent on quarter in the fourth quarter of 2018, well below a 2.6 percent growth in the previous estimate and 3.4 percent in the previous period. It compares with market expectations of 2.4 percent. Personal consumption expenditure and nonresidential fixed investment rose less than expected and public spending declined. On the other hand, the drag from net trade was smaller than anticipated as exports rose more and imports increased at a softer pace. Considering full 2018, the economy advanced 2.9 percent, the most since 2015, and above 2.2 percent in 2017.
• number of active oil and gas rigs fell in the United States this week according to Baker Hughes.
• The oil and gas rig count is now just 14 up from this time last year

• Federal Reserve policymakers expect rates to remain at current levels this year, compared to December’s projection of two hikes. The FOMC also pledged to start slowing the shrinking of its balance sheet in May and stop the drawdown altogether at the end of September. The economic-growth projections were also lowered for this year by a full percentage point to 2.1 percent. Interest Rate in the United States averaged 5.67 percent from 1971 until 2019

• The issue of workers' rights is a focus this weekend for some of the Democrats running for president.

• President Donald Trump has weighed in on the most recent controversy involving Rep. Ilhan Omar, retweeting video edited to suggest that the Minnesota Democrat was dismissive of the significance of the Sept. 11 attacks.

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the president "shouldn't use the painful images of 9/11 for a political attack."

  The video pulls a snippet of Omar's speech last month to the Council on American-Islamic Relations in which she described the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center as "some people did something," as well as news footage of the hijacked planes hitting the towers. Trump on Friday tweeted, "WE WILL NEVER FORGET!"

• Things becoming verse to Trump.