Day: April 1, 2018

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  Trump attacks Amazon in his latest tweet, erasing stock pre-market gains

  Amazon flat after being up 1.6% Trump has wanted to pick a fight with Amazon forever and he decided to step it up today in[...]
  2018-04-01 23:25:11

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  March Chicago PMI 57.4 vs 62.0 expected

  March 2018 Chicago PMI survey highlights - Lowest in more than a year - was 62.0 - Employment improved - New orders lower - Prices[...]
  2018-04-01 23:25:11

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  March final U Mich consumer sentiment 101.4 vs 102.0 expected

  The final reading on consumer sentiment from the University of Michigan - was 102.0 - was 99.7 - Highest reading since 2004 - Current conditions[...]
  2018-04-01 23:25:11

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  USD/CAD makes a quick trip lower

  USD/CAD down 40 pips in a quick move I'm looking around for NAFTA headlines or any reason behind it. It could be month-end flows into[...]
  2018-04-01 23:25:11

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  Atlanta Fed GDPNow jumps to 2.4% from 1.8% on Friday

  Rebounds in the latest report. The Atlanta Fed GDPNow estimate for first-quarter GDP growth jumped to 2.4% from 1.8% reported last Friday.  In their own[...]
  2018-04-01 23:25:11

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  Fed's Quarles speaking - drops a word on the economy - says its "doing well"

  Randy Quarles is a member and vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors His speech is on  So, he has had[...]
  2018-04-01 23:17:14

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  Canada January GDP mm -0.1% vs 0.1% exp

  Canada January GDP data now out 29 March - 0.2% prev rom 0.1% - yy  2.7% vs 2.9% exp vs 3.4% prev from 3.3% Soggy[...]
  2018-04-01 18:25:12

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  EURUSD falls below 100 hour MA. New session lows.

  50% of the move higher and 200 hour MA targeted now The EURUSD has fallen below the 100 hour MA for the 2nd time today.[...]
  2018-04-01 16:14:10

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  US February PCE core +1.6% vs +1.6% y/y expected

  Highlights of the February 2018 PCE report - was +1.5% y/y - Core PCE +0.2% m/m vs +0.2% m/m expected - Prior m/m +0.3% (unrevised) -[...]
  2018-04-01 14:25:11

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  US initial jobless claims 215K vs. 230K

  The continuing claims 1871K  vs 1870K expected. The US initial jobless claims for the week of March 24th came in better than expected at 215K. [...]
  2018-04-01 14:25:11

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