CalculatedRisk @ December 11, 2011 # Comments Off
Earlier:
• Summary for Week ending Dec 9th
Retail sales for November is the key report this week. For manufacturing, the December NY Fed (Empire state) and Philly Fed surveys, and the November Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization report w…
CalculatedRisk @ November 26, 2011 # Comments Off
It was a short holiday week, but the key story remained the same: the European situation continues to deteriorate as European policymakers fiddle. Europe continues to overshadow the U.S. economic situation and the European financial crisis continues t…
ForexBlogger @ November 22, 2011 # Comments Off
EUR/USD was volatile today as the impact of concerns about Europe and the resulting demand for the dollar as a safe haven was negated by worries about the situation in the United States. …
ForexBlogger @ November 2, 2011 # Comments Off
EUR/USD rallied today even though concerns about the planned referendum in Greece regarding the austerity measures required to get bailout rule the Forex market. The euro reversed its upward movement for a short …
CalculatedRisk @ November 2, 2011 # Comments Off
Below is a live video feed for Ben Bernanke’s press conference.
UPDATE: The forecast updates have been added below the video.
The FOMC statement was released at 12:30 PM. The FOMC noted that “economic growth strengthened somewhat in the third quarter…
CalculatedRisk @ November 2, 2011 # Comments Off
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold a press briefing at 2:15 PM ET.
From the Federal Reserve: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September indicates that economic growth strengthened somewhat in the third quarter, refl…
larrygreenberg @ November 2, 2011 # Comments Off
The FOMC will release a monetary policy statement at 12:30 EDT (16:30 GMT), and that will be followed by a Bernanke press conference starting at 14:15 EDT (18:15 GMT). The table below gives the market vital signs when previous FOMC statement were…
Kathy Lien @ October 31, 2011 # Comments Off
The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and the Reserve Bank of Australia have monetary policy meetings scheduled this week and some investors expect these central banks to change monetary policy. Here’s what the market is pricing in according to interest rate futures. You can compare them with the Central Bank expectations back in September. [...]
CalculatedRisk @ October 30, 2011 # Comments Off
There will be a two day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) this coming Tuesday and Wednesday. I expect no changes to the Fed Funds rate, or to the recently announced program to “extend the average maturity of its holdings of securities…
CalculatedRisk @ October 29, 2011 # Comments Off
Earlier:
• Summary for Week ending Oct 28th
The key report this week will be the employment situation report for October on Friday. Also the FOMC statement and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s press briefing on Wednesday, will be closely watched.
Other…