US Dollar (USD)

With most traders back at their desks after the holidays, there's a host of key economic data coming out of the US on the last day of the trading week. Chief among them is what looks like will be a less than stellar performance by US…
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The US Department of Commerce will be releasing the final revision to the third-quarter GDP numbers. Economists polled, do not expect to see many changes. Expectations are therefore flat, pointing to an unchanged print in the GDP at…
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The Federal Reserve will be holding its final monetary policy meeting for 2019 today. Heading into the meeting, no changes to interest rates are expected. The Federal Reserve last cut its rates in September this year, bringing the…
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The Conference Board’s consumer confidence report for November is due out later today. The median estimates point to a modest increase to 126.9 on the index. This is slightly higher than October’s reading of 125.9. The US consumer…
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The US Federal Reserve Bank will be releasing their meeting minutes today. The minutes cover the central bank’s monetary policy meeting held on October 30th this year. The minutes will be interesting as they cover the meeting where the…
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The monthly consumer price index data will be coming out later today. General estimates point to a modest increase in inflation during the month of October. Economists forecast that consumer prices will rise 0.3% on the month. Meanwhile,…
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The markets open a mixed week ahead which will see both interest rate decisions and GDP revised estimates. The data for the coming week will give us some insight into how the various economies fared during the third quarter of this year.…
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Two major commodity currency countries will be publishing their employment data. And that routinely shakes up the market a bit! New Zealand is especially interesting since they just finished signing a new trade agreement with their…
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The monthly non-manufacturing PMI report from the Institute of Supply Management will be coming out today. According to economists, median estimates point to a modest increase in the index. Estimates show that the ISM…
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The first Friday of November will see the US nonfarm payrolls report coming out amid a busy trading day. Following the surprise decline in the unemployment rate for the United States, the forecasts are somewhat more realistic this time…
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