by K-man | November 24th, 2019, 17:08:52 | Brexit, News, UK, US
The weekend press headlines. Good Sunday evening, Monday morning fellow FX traders. -Give an take a bit of political banter, it seems the weekend got a little better as it progressed from China’s political banter at the WTO yesterday into tighter IP protection...
by K-man | October 30th, 2019, 12:08:31 | Central Banks, Economic Data, Fed, FOMC, US
Preview on what’s to come for the mighty dollar. It’s some block of data and decisions we’re getting second half of this week. We start with GDP, core PCE followed by the FOMC rate decision and presser today. Tomorrow we’re having another round...
by K-man | August 2nd, 2019, 11:09:48 | Economic Data, US
US labour report preview 02.08.2019 What is supposed to be the main course of day could turn out to be nothing more than a small starter in the light of everything that’s going around on trade and geopolitics in this world. But traders we are so we will be...
by Ryan Littlestone | February 1st, 2019, 13:36:01 | Economic Data, News, US
January 2019 US non-farm payrolls and labour market date 1 February 2019 Non-farm payrolls 304k vs 165k exp. Prior 312k. Revised to 222k Private payrolls 296k vs 170k exp. Prior 301k. Revised to 206k Manufacturing payrolls 13k vs 17k exp. Prior 32k. Revised to 20k...
by Ryan Littlestone | January 24th, 2019, 16:03:05 | Economic Data, News, US
US weekly oil inventory data w/e 18 January 2018 Crude oil inventories 7.970m vs -0.750m exp. Prior -2.683m OPD 6.550m Cushing -0.190m vs -0.743m prior. OPD 0.360m Gasoline 4.050m vs 3.000m exp. Prior 7.503m. OPD 3.640m Distillates -0.617m vs 0.900m exp. Prior 2.967m....
by Ryan Littlestone | January 11th, 2019, 13:32:53 | Economic Data, News, US
December 2018 US CPI inflation data 11 January 2019 CPI 1.9% vs 1.9% exp y/y. Prior 2.2% -0.1% vs -0.1% exp m/m. Prior 0.0% Core 2.2% vs 2.2% exp/prior y/y 0.2% vs 0.2% exp m/m. Prior 0.2% Real average weekly earnings 0.7% vs 0.3% exp m/m. Prior -0.1% 1.2% vs 1.2%...