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Market News - February 11, 2022

Following another sharp increase in consumer prices, the US inflation-rate climbed to 7.5% - a 40-year high. Big increases in the cost of rent, food, and energy drove the consumer price index up 0.6% in the first month of the new year. The increase greatly exceeded Wall Street's forecast of a 0.4% gain. The 7.5% surge in the cost of living in the past 12 months is the biggest since February 1982.

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Market News - February 4, 2022

Along with gasoline and rent we get to add orange juice to the ever-expanding list of prices expected to skyrocket throughout the year. The January forecast for the U.S. citrus harvest is looking especially bleak for Florida orange growers. One of the results of the meager harvest would likely be rising orange juice prices.

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Market News - January 28, 2022

The confidence of the nation’s consumers slipped this month as the spread of Omicron and higher prices for just about everything weighed on consumer sentiment. The Conference Board reported its Consumer Confidence Survey fell 1.4 points to 113.8 this month. Economists had forecast the index to pullback to 111.7. During the pandemic, the index reached a high of 128.9 last summer during a lull in the pandemic to a low of 85.7 at the onset.

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Market News - January 21, 2022

Stunningly higher shipping costs are yet another element of the nation’s supply chain problems. Shipping costs have skyrocketed as shortages of trucks, truck drivers, warehouse workers and others constrict the shipping pipeline and raise costs.

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Market News - January 14, 2022

The value of a dollar has plummeted lately with the recent ravages of inflation, but the loss of value is just a more severe and considerably steeper continuation of the long-term decline in the value of a dollar. As measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the dollar has lost about 40% of its purchasing power just since January 1, 2000. Once called the “almighty” dollar, it seems that adjective is hardly warranted now.

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