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• Fund managers lose out from benchmarking (FT) see also The Pitfalls of Benchmarking (A Wealth of Common Sense) • A Cheaper Way to Battle Recession (Bloomberg View) • The Amazon Tax (Stratechery) • Why Don’t Investors Stay True to Their Principles? Think Self-Deception (Think Advisor) see also Buy & Hold Can Be Risky, Too (Capital Spectator) • How Americans’ Perceptions of the Economy Have Changed in Just Three Months (Real Time Economics) ...
Trading the News: U.S. Durable Goods Orders A 3.0% contraction in orders for U.S. Durable Goods may hamper the near-term advance in the greenback and spur a rebound in EUR/USD should the data print undermine Fed expectations for a ‘consumer-led’ recovery in 2016. What’s Expected: Why Is This Event Important: A slowdown in private-sector consumption, one of the leading drivers of growth and inflation, ...
Trading the News: U.K. Retail Sales The U.K. Retail Sales report may produce headwinds for the British Pound and drag on GBP/USD as signs of a slowing recovery provides the Bank of England (BoE) with greater scope to further delay its normalization cycle. What’s Expected: Why Is This Event Important: Even though BoE argues that the next policy move will be to lift the benchmark interest rate ...
Trading the News: U.K. Consumer Price Index (CPI) Another uptick in the U.K. Consumer Price Index (CPI) accompanied by stickiness in the core-rate of inflation may generate a near-term rebound in GBP/USD as it puts increased pressure on the Bank of England (BoE) to normalize monetary policy sooner rather than later. What’s Expected: Why Is This Event Important: The BoE looks poised to retain ...
The unemployment rate in Australia dropped to a seasonally adjusted 5.8 percent in February, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday. more...