Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

The price of crude has been on something of a roller-coaster since the start of the year. From a sudden drop in the first days of January, it climbed through the third week, only to have a hard drop a couple of days ago. Naturally there…
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Goldman Sachs has been one of the recent major banks to upgrade its expectations for the Euro Zone for the coming year. It had previously expected the shared economy to fall into a recession in the first half of the year. Now, the forecast…
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Analysts are coalescing around the idea that the BOC will hike by a quarter percentage point (or "one hike" as it used to be) at the next meeting. But given the connection between Canada and the US in economic terms, some traders might be…
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This week, Cable traders will have a lot to look at. Of course the big event later in the week is the long anticipated Autumn Budget that is expected to be released on Thursday.  It's not expected to be such a controversial affair this time…
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After warning for a few months that the UK was heading towards a recession, after the last meeting it came out and said that the recession had arrived. Of course, the data hasn't been out to show it, yet. Since the technical definition of a…
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After the controversy over whether or not the US was technically in a recession during the first half of the year, we'll now get another round of data to potentially clear that up. There are some other data points coming out at the same…
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Everything was on hold in China until the conclusion of the Chinese Communist Party's Congress over the weekend. Then there was a barrage of data and we found out what had been agreed on. Apparently, the markets didn't like the result as…
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The recent slide in the yuan currency with respect to the dollar has slowed. The official rate is being set lower (implies stronger yuan), and it emerged earlier today that major state banks have been buying their currency (and selling…
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Markets are still digesting the repercussions of the Chancellor's "mini-budget". In the latest move, the BOE increased the amount of authorized buybacks through TECRF facility. That's the intervention launched to shore up the pound in the…
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