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Trading the News: U.S. Durable Goods Orders A 2.3% decline in demand for U.S. Durable Goods accompanied by a weakening outlook for business investments may produce near-term headwinds for the greenback as it fuels speculation for a further delay in the Fed liftoff. What’s Expected: Why Is This Event Important: The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) may continue to endorse a wait-and-see approach ...
Trading the News: European Central Bank (ECB) Interest Rate Decision Even though the European Central Bank (ECB) is widely expected to retain its current policy in September, the fresh updates coming out of the Governing Council may trigger a selloff in EUR/USD should the committee show a greater willingness to expand/extend its quantitative easing (QE) program. What’s Expected: Why Is This Event Important ...
Trading the News: U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) What’s Expected: Why Is This Event Important: The Fed may stay on course to normalize monetary policy in 2015 as the central bank still anticipates a stronger recovery to materialize over the coming months, and data prints encouraging an improved outlook for growth & inflation may spur a greater dissent within the committee as the economy gets on a ...
New Zealand posted a merchandise trade deficit of NZ$649 million in July, Statistics New Zealand said on Wednesday - representing 15 percent of exports. more...
A 0.4% rebound in U.K. Retail Sales may heighten the appeal of the British Pound and fuel the near-term breakout in GBP/USD as it puts increased pressure on the Bank of England (BoE) to raise the benchmark interest rate off of the record-low. What’s Expected: Why Is This Event Important: Positive data prints coming out of the U.K. economy may highlight a tightening race between the BoE/Fed to normalize monetary ...