Month: January 2018

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  Crude oil futures settle at $61.44

  Down $.57 or 0.92% The price of crude oil futures settled at $61.44 that was down $.57 or -0.92%.  The high price today reached $62.04,[...]
  2018-01-07 20:47:05

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  What's up next week? A look at some of the key events and releases

  For the week starting on January 7th Now that the US/Canadian employment report has come and gone, it is time to look ahead to next[...]
  2018-01-07 20:47:05

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  CFTC commitment of traders: EUR longs surge to the largest long position on record

  CFTC commitment of traders highlights for the week ending January 2, 2018 Highlights: Copyright 2015 Forexlive.com
  2018-01-07 20:47:05

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  What's priced in for the Federal Reserve this year

  Rates are going up, but how fast? The January 31 FOMC will likely be a non-event, according to market pricing. From there, it gets interesting.[...]
  2018-01-07 20:39:14

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  Preview of the FOMC December meeting minutes due Wednesday

  The Federal Reserve will publish the December monetary policy meeting minutes at 1900 GMT on Wednesday 3 January 2018 Barclays have popped out a quickie[...]
  2018-01-07 20:39:14

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  The Fed's 2018 Federal Open Market Committee voters - the hawks, the doves

  Each year the regional Federal Reserve presidents voting on the FOMC rotate off, replaced an fresh incoming set. There are permanent voting members of the[...]
  2018-01-07 20:39:14

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  Here's another central bank expected to hike 3 times this year (yuan-a guess who?)

  The People's Bank of China is expected to hike money market interest rates in 2018 The latest Bloomberg survey of 31 analysts has the PBOC raising interest[...]
  2018-01-07 20:39:14

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  PBOC sets USD/CNY reference rate for today at 6.4920 (vs. yesterday at 6.5079)

  And, on money markets the People's Bank of China has skipped Open Market Operations again today, for the 8th day in a row You cannot[...]
  2018-01-07 20:39:14

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  Up next: Minutes of the Dec 13 FOMC meeting

  Minutes due out at the top of the hour The best thing to read before the minutes are released is the prior statement. In particular,[...]
  2018-01-07 20:39:07

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  FOMC Minutes: Most backed continued gradual rate hikes

  Highlights from the minutes of the December 13, 2017 FOMC meeting - Several Fed officials concerned by low inflation expectations - Failure of inflation to[...]
  2018-01-07 20:39:07

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