Monthly Archives: August 2009

Preview – USD University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment and Inflation Expectations

Tomorrow, Friday 08-14-09 at 9:55 AM ET the University of Michigan will be releasing two monthly reports, Consumer Sentiment and Inflation Expectations. These two reports do have an impact on the FOREX market when the “actual” comes out different from the “forecast” – Consumer Sentiment appears to be the stronger of the two. Most FOREX [...]

Follow up – CAD Employment Change and Unemployment Rate

Last Friday 08-07-09 at 7:00 AM ET Canada released their monthly Employment Change and Unemployment Rate. These reports were released by “Statistics Canada”. – I did a preview of these reports, click here for a review. CAD Employment Change stats previous = -7.4K forecast = -19.0K actual = -44.5K       not good for the CAD. There [...]

Preview GBP – Claimant Count Change and Unemployment Rate

Coming up tomorrow morning are two important U.K. news reports – there are several more as well, but these two seem to have a strong affect on the FOREX market. On Wednesday, 08-12-09 at 4:30 AM ET the GBP Claimant Count Change and Unemployment Rate will be released. Both of these reports are released by [...]

Follow up EUR – German Factory Orders MoM and YoY

The German Factory Orders report was released Thursday 08-06-09 at 6:00 AM ET. The next release is scheduled for Monday 09-07-09 at 8:00 AM ET. I did a preview of these reports in an earlier post, click here to see. Here are the results of the reports… EUR German Factory Orders m/m previous = 4.4% [...]

Follow Up – USD ISM Non – Manufacturing Composite for July

On Wednesday 08-05-09 at 10:00 AM ET, the USD ISM Non – Manufacturing Composite for July was released along with USD Factory Orders report. I did a preview of the reports, click here to see. The GBP  NIESR GDP Estimate report was scheduled to be released at the same time as the ISM and Factory [...]

Follow up – USD Pending Home Sales MoM and Pending Home Sales Index MoM

The USD Pending Home Sales MoM and Pending Home Sales Index MoM were released on Tuesday 08-04-09 at 10:00 AM ET. I did a “preview” of the report and if you click here – you can see it. The USD Pending Homes Sales reports are released VIA the National Association of Realtors on a monthly [...]

Follow up – GBP Purchasing Managers Index Manufacturing July

On Monday 08-03-09 at 4:30AM ET, the GBP Purchasing Managers Index Manufacturing report for July was released. You can see my “preview” post by clicking here As you will see in the charts, the report was released 2 minutes prior to subscribers of Reuters, and the market did move then. The report stats prior to [...]

Preview – CAD Employment Change and Unemployment Rate

Canada is releasing their monthly Employment Change and Unemployment Rate tomorrow, Friday 08-07-09 at 7:00 AM ET. These reports are released by “Statistics Canada”. These two reports are at times conflicting, economically, if the Employment Change is improving, which is good for the economy, but if the Unemployment Rate is increasing, which is bad for [...]

Preview EUR – German Factory Orders MoM and YoY

For some reason I like to follow the Germany Factory Orders put out by Deutsche Bundesbank.   Even though the German economy is a good, strong industrial producer, it is difficult to get a handle on a report trade. But I keep following it anyway. The German Factory Orders report is scheduled to be released tomorrow, [...]

Preview – USD ISM Non – Manufacturing Composite for July

On Wednesday 08-05-09 at 10:00 AM ET, the USD ISM Non – Manufacturing Composite for July will be released along with USD Factory Orders report. The ISM Non – Manufacturing report is released by the Institute for Supply Management, and the factory Orders report is released by the Census Bureau Both reports are released monthly, [...]