Gary Siegel

Director and Senior Credit Analyst, Wells Fargo Principal Investments

Managing Director, Business Head of Municipals, Ipreo

While he doesn’t “see much risk of an outsized breakout in inflation,” Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said Monday he is concerned that inflation expectations are too low.

The Treasury Department said Monday it will sell $35 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.

Texas factory activity, as measured by the production index, “continued to increase in September,” according to the monthly Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, released Monday.

The Chicago Fed National Activity Index fell to negative 0.31 and the three-month moving average slid to negative 0.04.

Inflation will reach 2% in 2019 and stay there in 2020, after getting close in 2018, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen said during a press conference Wednesday afternoon.

The Summary of Economic projections calls for one more rate hike in 2017.

The Federal Reserve will begin its balance-sheet-reduction plan in October, the panel announced Wednesday.

Existing home sales declined 1.7% to a seasonally adjusted 5.35 million-unit rate in August , the National Association of Realtors announced Wednesday.

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $35 billion of four-week bills at a 0.960% high yield, a price of 99.925333.

The Treasury Department said Monday it will sell $35 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.

Builders’ confidence in the market for new single-family homes decreased, the National Association of Home Builders said.

The New York region's service sector activity "expanded modestly," according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's September Business Leaders Survey, released Monday.

The University of Michigan's preliminary September consumer sentiment index reading was 95.3, compared to the final August 96.8 and the preliminary August 97.6, according to market sources.

Industrial production plunged 0.9% in August, the Federal Reserve reported Friday.

Retail sales slid 0.2% in August after gaining a revised 0.3% in July, originally reported as a 0.6% increase, the Commerce Department said Friday.

The Empire State Manufacturing Survey showed "business activity continued to grow strongly in New York State."

The Treasury Department said Thursday it will auction $42 billion 91-day bills and $36 billion 182-day discount bills Monday.

The federal government ran a $107.7 billion deficit in August, the Treasury Department reported Thursday.