NFP

XAUUSD Consolidates amid Non Farm Payroll data Gold has a brief jump as the dollar index fell amid last week’s non farm payroll data. On the chart, the price has bounced off the origin of its breakout at 2610. A close above…
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The Fed is not in its pre-rate decision blackout, meaning that the market has to focus on the data to figure out what will happen at the last rate decision of the year. Friday's November US NFP is one of the two major data points that will…
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Before the election, there was a near-unanimous expectation that the FOMC Rate Decision would result in a cut by 25bps at the conclusion of its policy meeting on Thursday. That expectation has only strengthened since then. While a Trump…
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Markets are resoundingly convinced that the BOJ Rate Decision won't result in a hike at the upcoming meeting that ends on Thursday. But, it also seems the BOJ is having trouble breaking its habit of shocking the market. And economists have…
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The twin most important events this week for the markets are likely to be CPI and the FOMC Minutes a day later. This is because the shocker of NFP on Friday has thrown the market rate calculus into disarray, and some additional insight is…
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Last week, crude prices rose in anticipation of the weekend. Volatility rose quickly, hitting the highest level since the October 7 attack last year. But since trading started with the new week, the situation has been a bit anticlimactic,…
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Markets seem to be holding their breath ahead of key September NFP data expected on Friday. There have been a lot of events in the world this week to push markets around. But the focus seems to still be on a combination of whether the…
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SPX 500 retreats as stocks tumble The S&P shed a few points amid concerns about slowing growth within the American economy, with stocks tumble. The market seems to be very jumpy to any incoming data, especially SIM and NFP numbers.…
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