On Tuesday, the 23rd of June at 10:00 AM ET 4 USD reports were released, 2 reports were dealing with “Existing Home Sales”, by the National Association of Realtors, one with the “House Price Index” by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and another dealt with the ”Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index” by the Federal Reserve Bank [...]
On Friday 06-19-09 at 8:30 AM ET Canada’s “Statistics Canada” released their monthly report of “Core Retail Sales” M/M which excludes the sale of autos, and “Retails Sales” M/M which represents total consumer spending. These 2 reports come about 50 days after the months end. For this day, the “Core Retail Sales” previous report is [...]
Today, Thursday the 18th of June 09, at 10:00 AM ET, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia released their monthly Manufacturing Index report. Here are the results of the report. Unfortunately the report was released 1 minute early, this caused some early unexpected trading to proceed. The Manufacturing Index report was good for the USD [...]
On Thursday the 18th of June 09, at 6:00AM ET, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia will release their monthly Manufacturing Index report. Sometimes this release will influence how traders view the affects of that report on the US economy – especially if the report is far from the forecast. On May 21st, there was [...]
The USD ADP Employment Change had only a very small change from the forecast. The forecast was a -525K, the actual came out at a -532K, a small difference of 7K – not nearly enough to surprise or influence any market movement. About 2 minutes and 30 seconds after the release of the employment change, [...]
The USD ADP Non-Farm Unemployment Change often times will move the market when the actual report release is more than the forecast by a large amount. The report that came out on Wednesday, the 6th of May, was one such surprise report, the forecast was a -644K, the actual report was a -491K, an improvement [...]
