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Congress and Housing, Earnings and Inflation: Advisor Briefing for the Week of January 10, 2011

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Part of the 112th Congress returns to work this week in a chastened atmosphere following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) on Saturday. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in Washington for talks with President Obama early in the week, we get reports on prices and the Fed's balance sheet in midweek, and on Friday we learn about CPI on the same day that earnings season begins in earnest with JP Morgan Chase’s earnings.

On Monday, Jan. 10, President Obama meets with the visiting French president Sarkozy in Washington to discuss monetary policy and Europe’s bailouts, among other issues.

Tuesday, Jan. 11 brings the return of the House of Representatives, which convenes for two days business, including a resolution Wednesday expressing its outrage on the shooting of Rep. Giffords, who on Jan. 7 introduced a bill to cut Representatives’ pay by 5% this year (the Senate doesn’t return until Tuesday, Jan. 24).

Economic reports include the wholesale trade numbers for November, retail sales reports from ICSC-Goldman Sachs and Redbook, and the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index,. Two investing conferences are held for institutional investors: the Needham Growth Conference in New York (Jan. 11-13) and the ICR XChange conference in Dana Point, Calif.

On Wednesday, Jan. 12, we hear about the state of the real estate market via the Mortgage Bankers Association new applications, we hear about trade through release of import and export prices from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for December, and we get a take on the economy through release of the Federal Reserve’s beige book.

Thursday, Jan. 13 brings release of the producer price index (PPI) for December, along with weekly jobless claims and November international trade figures from the Census Bureau.

We learn about the Fed’s balance sheet, along with the status of the money supply. In Washington, the CFTC meets to consider new rules under Dodd-Frank on derivatives trading and Fed Chairman Bernanke speaks at a FDIC-sponsored event in Arlington, Va., appearing with FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, while overseas the European Central Bank and the Bank of England hold policy meetings.

The big market-moving news on Friday, Jan. 14 is likely to be release of December’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), along with reports on retail sales, industrial production and the consumer confidence index from the University of Michigan/Thomson Reuters.

JP Morgan Chase is scheduled to release its 4th quarter and full-year earnings. The Republican party is scheduled to elect a new chairman. There are some indications that the SEC will beat its Jan. 21 deadline under Dodd-Frank and deliver its report to Congress on an SRO for advisors.

About the Author
James J. Green, AdvisorOne

James J. Green, AdvisorOne

Jamie Green is Group Editorial Director of the Investment Advisory Group at Summit Business Media, with overall editorial responsibility for AdvisorOne.com, launched in October 2010, and Investment Advisor and Research magazines, monthly print magazines which have served advisors of all kinds for more than 30 years. He can be reached at jgreen@sbmedia.com

He has nearly 30 years experience in print and electronic journalism, with nearly 14 years covering the investment advisory industry. In the 1980s he was editor of Tele/Scope, a pioneering electronic news service based in New York that covered telecommunications business and research, and was editor of Telecommunications Research, a monthly journal. In the 1990s he worked for nine years at The New York Times, where he was editor of TimesFax, an electronic version of the newspaper of record now known as TimesDigest. While at The Times, he led the editorial team that expanded distribution of TimesFax to remote corners of every continent on Earth, to every ship in the U.S. Navy, to scores of cruise ships, and to the international space station.

He joined what was then Dow Jones Investment Advisor in 1999 as managing editor, was appointed Executive Editor of Investment Advisor magazine in 2000, Editor in 2002, Editor-in-Chief in 2005, and Editorial Director of Investment Advisor and Wealth Manager in 2008 before assuming his current position in 2009.

He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from St. Hyacinth College in Granby, Mass., and studied theology on the graduate level at St. Anthony-on-the-Hudson, Rensselaer, N.Y.

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