Macro Briefing: 29 April 2024

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* Weak US Q1 GDP report masks underlying strength: Wells Fargo * US Fed meeting this week arrives as summer rate cut expectations fade * Are wealthy older Americans fueling growth and helping delay rate cuts? * Higher estimates of neutral rate suggests the days of low interest rates is over * US consumer spending increased more than forecast in March:US inflation, measured by the personal consu...

Book Bits: 27 April 2024

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By purchasing books through this site, you provide support for The Capital Spectator’s free content... ● Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis Charles L... and Daniel Herriges Summary via publisher (Wiley) Housing is an investment... Housing is shelter... In Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Solution to the Housing Crisis, renowned urbanists Char...

Databricks DBRX is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

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Today, we are excited to announce that the DBRX model, an open, general-purpose large language model (LLM) developed by Databricks, is available for customers through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to deploy with one click for running inference... You can try out this model with SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that provides access to algorithms and models so you can quickly get start...

Knowledge Bases in Amazon Bedrock now simplifies asking questions on a single document

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At AWS re:Invent 2023, we announced the general availability of Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock... With Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, you can securely connect foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock to your company data for fully managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)... In previous posts, we covered new capabilities like hybrid search support, metadata filtering to improve retri...

Is The Hot Inflation Data In Q1 Noise Or Signal?

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Yesterday’s first-quarter GDP report delivered a one-two punch for markets: slower-than-expected growth and hotter-than-expected inflation... core PCE, which is said to be the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation metric... The Q1 print marks the lowest pace of inflation in three years... More importantly, the year-over-year yardstick suggests that disinflation is still unfolding...How is re...

Macro Briefing: 26 April 2024

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* High commodity prices are another factor that could delay rate cuts: World Bank * Pending US home sales rose much more than forecast in March * Jobless claims in US fall to lowest level in 9 weeks * US inflation picked up in the first quarter * US GDP growth slows more than forecast in the first quarter:The US 10-year Treasury yield rose to 4.71% on Thursday (Apr. 25), the highest since Nov. ...