Next Week's February NFP by BofA Merrill "In the February employment report, we anticipate a pick-up in the pace of nonfarm payroll growth to 175,000, with government payrolls accounting for 5,000.""We look for the unemployment to hold steady at 4.9%. It will be interesting to see if the labor force participation rate continues to increase, following the uptrend over the prior four months. If so, this could reflect some discouraged ...
Week Ahead: High volatility, limited GBP downside, the JPY lower, and more What we’re watching: USD – Next week’s PCE data will be key. Only a considerably weaker than expected outcome may lower rate expectations further. GBP – Growth data should become a more important currency driver anew. Hence next week’s GDP data will be closely watched. We see limited GBP downside risk from the current levels. ...
Why Most Investors Hate Gold "We’ll be blunt: most financial asset investors really hate gold. Anything – even leaving money in the bank – is better than owning gold since at least society has access to your capital through the banking system. Once you buy physical gold, no one has access to that sliver of your portfolio." "First, when the S&P 500 drops 5% or more in one day. Second, when the CBOE VIX Index tops 40. And ...
Janet Yellen and Glenn Stevens speeches, US Crude Oil Inventories, Unemployment Claims, Retail Sales and Consumer Sentiment. These are the main market movers for this week. Janet Yellen speaks: Wednesday, 15:00. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen will testify on the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report before the House Financial Services Committee, in Washington DC. Yellen may explain the Fed’s decision to leave rates unchanged on its ...
Weekly price was on bearish ranging market condition located within 1.0707 support and 1.1059 resistance level. Price broke 1.1059 resistance to above on Friday with the good breakout to be started on open bar: the 'reversal' Senkou Span line is going to be broken by the price to above for the possible reversal of the price movement from the primary bearish to the ranging bullish market condition. Chinkou Span line is breaking the price to above for the bullish breakout to be continuing in the near ...