Wednesday is the big day this week for dollar-yen, with advance quarterly GDP data from the USA coming ahead of the FOMC’s meeting. Very poor data is already priced in but how the Fed interprets the figures might be key for ongoing direction in the latter part of the week. Key data points Wednesday 29…
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Key data points Tuesday 14 April (all day): G7’s video meeting Wednesday 15 April, 12.30 GMT: American monthly retail sales (March) - consensus -7%, previous -0.5% Thursday 16 April, 12.30 GMT: American initial jobless claims (11 Apr) - consensus 4.7 million, previous 6.6 million Brent, four-hour There hasn’t been any ongoing direction for crude oil…
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The following article was submitted by Michael Stark, market analyst at Exness. The most important regular data for financial markets this week is tomorrow’s claimant count change from the UK. Other key releases due this week are ZEW sentiment from Germany plus annual inflation in Canada, Japan, Sweden and the UK. One of the biggest…
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The following article was submitted by Michael Stark, market analyst at Exness. Asian markets started the week on a fairly positive note as Chinese factories posted three-year record growth in November. Caixin manufacturing PMI came in at 51.8 in the early morning today, beating both the previous release and the consensus. Meanwhile data from Turkey was also…
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