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The opening of Nashville's new convention center has quickened the tempo of Music City's economy, with meetings already booked there through 2026. SouthPoint takes a look at the potential economic impact of the facility and why it has city leaders sing...
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Federal Reserve cash and check services in Atlanta maintain a business continuity plan for business disruptions. The Atlanta Fed also has a comprehensive list that includes contingency contacts and general contingency information to help banks work wit...
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EconSouth, First Quarter 2013.
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The two global ATM cash-out schemes that netted a cybercrime organization a whopping $45 million are a "game changer" for the security controls of all types of card management applications, says Portals and Rails. How should bankers and card management...
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Businesses large and small necessarily anticipate factors that affect their costs, including labor costs and price increases. A new macroblog post parses recent survey results that asked regional businesses to look into their crystal balls for the next...
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The Atlanta Fed's sticky-price consumer price index (CPI) measure--the measure of the weighted basket of goods consumers purchase that change prices relatively infrequently--rose 0.8 percent (annualized) in April, following 1.8 percent growth in March....
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One measure of the probability of deflation for the 2012-17 period is 0 percent, where it has been most days since early February this year. The 2013-18 deflation probability, based on the 5-year TIPS issued last month and the 10-year TIPS issued in Ju...
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The Fed's decentralized structure was put in place nearly 100 years ago. Does it still make sense? The latest in the Atlanta Fed's animated video series explains how the U.S. central bank's regional structure helps gather grassroots information about e...
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Inflation expectations of businesses were relatively unchanged at 2 percent in May, according to the Atlanta Fed's monthly business inflation expectations (BIE) survey. However, nearly two-thirds of respondents expect labor costs to put moderate to str...
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The latest Data Digest on the Southeast economy noted improvements in regional labor markets and manufacturing activity. Despite these modest gains, however, the Atlanta Fed's D6 Factor declined for a third consecutive month.
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