Forex Weekly Outlook Feb 29-Mar 4 Rate decision in Australia, GDP data from Canada and Australia, Manufacturing PMI and Trade balance in the US as well as important employment data, including the monthly US jobs report. These are the highlights for this week. Australian rate decision: Tuesday 3:30. Economists still believe the RBA will cut rates in the coming months.Canadian GDP data: Tuesday, 13:30. Canadian GDP is ...
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 ...
GBPUSD intra-day price (M5 timeframe) broke key support level for 100 pips lower during the NFP news events: "The GBPUSD is currently rebounding off its daily lows after declining during today’s NFP (Non-Farm Payrolls) event. NFP figures were expected to be released at +190k; however, these expectations were missed with a total of 151k. Initially major pairs declined against the US Dollar. As seen above, the GBP/USD is still trading ...
Trading the News: U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls Another 190K expansion in Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP) may boost the appeal of the greenback as the U.S. economy approaches ‘full-employment,’ but a marked slowdown in wage growth may fuel the near-term rally in EUR/USD as it dampens bets for a Fed rate-hike in the first-half of 2016. What’s Expected: Why Is This Event Important: Even though the Federal ...
"The US Dollar has initially rallied from this news, causing pairs such as the GBP/USD to decline in value. Now that NFP has concluded traders may continue to watch for further declines under today’s S4 pivot point, which resides at a price of 1.4556. In the event of a breakout below this value traders may begin to extrapolate today’s 59-pip range to find initial targets near 1.4497.""If the current bout of US Dollar strength begins to falter, ...
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