ForexBlogger @ May 9, 2013 # Comments Off
EUR/USD declined today, following yesterday’s rally, as European Central Bank policy makers told that the central bank has ability to ease the monetary policy further. At the same time, many economists believe that t…
About.com Forex Trading @ September 19, 2012 # Comments Off
With QE3 now looming, I am starting to wonder if we are going to see another significant slide in the US Dollar.
The US Fed is once again going to fire up the printing presses up buy up whatever is out there devaluing the US currency against everythin…
CalculatedRisk @ December 4, 2011 # Comments Off
From HotelNewsNow.com: STR: US results for week ending 26 November
In year-over-year comparisons for the week, occupancy rose 3.4 percent to 45.0 percent, average daily rate increased 3.7 percent to US$90.51 and revenue per available room finished the …
CalculatedRisk @ December 3, 2011 # Comments Off
Earlier:
• Summary for Week ending Dec 2nd
European policymakers are meeting again this week, and an announcement of additional measures is expected by Friday, December 9th.
This will be a light week for economic releases. The key economic release…
CalculatedRisk @ November 24, 2011 # Comments Off
• From the Athens News: Papademos says Samaras letter ‘satisfactory’ The standoff over Antonis Samaras’ refusal to sign a written commitment that he backs austerity measures seems to have come to an end, after Prime Minister Lucas Papademos told th…
CalculatedRisk @ November 20, 2011 # Comments Off
“In the near future”, the NAR is expected to revise down their estimates of existing home sales for the last few years. Tom Lawler wrote back in January 2011: As many readers may recall, over the last year and a half I have noted numerous times that t…
CalculatedRisk @ October 27, 2011 # Comments Off
From HotelNewsNow.com: Miami reports strongest weekly RevPAR gain
Overall, the U.S. hotel industry’s occupancy rose 4% to 66.2%, average daily rate increased 4.4% to US$105.49, and RevPAR finished the week up 8.6% to US$69.88.Note: ADR: Average Daily…
CalculatedRisk @ October 21, 2011 # Comments Off
From the LA Times: October auto sales expected to riseAuto research company J.D. Power and Associates estimates an annual industry sales pace of 13.1 million vehicles for the month, about the same as September and a big jump from earlier in the year.Au…
CalculatedRisk @ October 16, 2011 # Comments Off
From economist Tom Lawler:
Many folks have for some strange reason argued that safe and effective loan modifications for troubled borrowers should get these borrowers into 30-year fixed-rate mortgages – even though short-term interest rates are clos…
CalculatedRisk @ October 13, 2011 # Comments Off
Note: This is one of the industry specific measures that I follow.
From HotelNewsNow.com: STR: US hotels report slight performance gains
In year-over-year comparisons for the week, occupancy rose 1.5% to 64.4%, average daily rate increased 2.8% to U…