Canada’s monthly jobs report showed that the economy added a healthy gain of 31,800 jobs in the month of June. But this wasn’t enough to keep the unemployment rate steady. Canada’s unemployment rate jumped two percentage points to 6.0%. In May, the unemployment rate held steady at 5.8%. This was the first time that Canada’s unemployment rate ...
The economic calendar for the week ahead is relatively quiet following a busy start to the month last week. Among the central bank meetings, the Bank of Canada's monetary policy meeting stands out. Heading into the BoC meeting, the markets are somewhat divided on whether the BoC will hike rates or not this week. The European Central Bank will...
EURUSD Non-Commercials reduced their net long positions in the Euro last week selling 2k contracts to take the total position to 34k contracts. EUR has now been net sold for each consecutive week over the last month as the market has adjusted its view in line with the ECB’s declaration that rates will be on hold until at least summer 2019. ...
While until recently, economists were hawkish on the Bank of Canada and preparing for a rate hike as early as July, the prospects of a rate hike are starting to diminish if recent data is anything to go by. Last week, data from Canada covered the retail sales and inflation reports. An unexpected dip in Canada's retail sales in April and a rat...
The Bank of England's monetary policy meeting is scheduled for this week on Thursday. According to the economists polled and the market watchers, the UK's central bank is expected to leave interest rates unchanged at this week's meeting. The central bank had last hiked interest rates in November 2017 by 25 basis points, bringing the interest ...
The market was rocked last week as the ECB delivered a blow with a double-edged sword at its June monetary policy meeting. The central bank announced that it would wind down its massive quantitative easing program by the end of 2018 though bulls were left disappointed as Draghi added the caveat that rates will be kept on hold “at least through t...
Inflation Rises In Line With Expectations USD bulls were given some encouragement this week as the latest data showed May inflation in the US printing in-line with expectations, with the headline measure rising 0.2% month-over-month. This latest increase raises the inflation rate to 2.8% from 2.5% in April, marking the fastest increase since 20...
The RBA June monetary policy review saw very little in the way of new information and did little to move markets. As expected, the bank kept rates on hold at record lows of 1.5% for the twenty-first consecutive month, marking a fresh record for unchanged policy. Along with the unchanged decision, the bank made hardly any changes to the prior sta...
The President of The Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, (known to be a hawk in the FOMC) Loretta Mester aims to maintain Fed's course, stating that the central bank must continue its gradual approach to raising interest rates as the inflation rate still did not reach the central bank's 2% inflation target rate. She spoke on Monday in Paris, amid a ...
As the April Canada unemployment rate remains steady, the Canadian economy was seen losing jobs in the month of April, with declines seen by a drop in the part-time workers. The weaker than expected data raised expectations that the Bank of Canada will be holding interest rates unchanged at its meeting this month. Data from Statistics Canada ...
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