Federal Reserve (FED)

The labor market in the US is expected to show signs of further deterioration when Friday's May NFP are reported. But, it's still an open question of whether the data will be bad enough for the Fed to move towards cutting rates. A…
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Markets are reacting to a surprise development in the trade war saga. A little-known Federal trade court in Manhattan issued a ruling late on Wednesday that the President doesn't have the authority to make such large tariff moves. The…
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Traders hoping for a quiet long weekend with the US and the UK closed for holiday on Monday the 26th might be up for disappointment. US President Donald Trump has developed a habit of making major market-moving announcements over the…
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The market and economists are pretty much unanimous in expecting the Fed to hold rates unchanged in the upcoming FOMC rate decision on Wednesday. That had been the forecast for quite a while. The big change, however, happened with the…
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Wednesday sees the release of some important economic data that markets are very keen to get their hands on. The partial results of the purchasing managers survey for April PMI data come out. That's key, because it's the first bit of data…
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After last Friday's jobs numbers didn't provide much guidance, a lot more is riding on Wednesday's US February CPI report. Traders remained worried about how the trade war will affect the economy, which has contributed to a weaker dollar of…
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At the start of the week, the consensus in the market was that the Fed (Federal Reserve) would do its next rate cut in June. Then consumer confidence data came out on Tuesday, causing markets to push that cut forward by a month. The stock…
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The main element on the economic calendar that the markets could latch on to this week is Wednesday's release of the minutes of the last FOMC Minutes meeting. There's been a lot of data released that could allow for a new interpretation of…
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