Month: April 2018

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  Gary Cohn tried to talk Trump out of battle with Amazon

  Cohn gave PowerPoint presentations, Trump didn't listen The WSJ reports that Trump's economic team tried to talk him out of a battle with Amazon, showing[...]
  2018-04-08 15:25:22

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  Canada net employment change 32.3k vs 20k exp

  Canada March employment data now out 6 April - unemployment rate 5.8% as exp/prev - part time change -35.9k vs 54.7k prev - full time[...]
  2018-04-07 23:25:16

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  China commerce ministry says it's fully prepared to respond to Trump's new tariff

  China fires back China has been steadfast that it will not back down in a trade war. The latest from the commerce ministry says the[...]
  2018-04-07 23:25:16

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  Poisoned Russian spy is no longer in critical condition

  Reports that his status has been upgraded I didn't think there was any recovery from that kind of nerve agent, but evidently he's getting better.[...]
  2018-04-07 23:25:16

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  US Fed's Bullard says current interest rate level is close to neutral

  US Fed's Bullard with scheduled speech 4 April - US GDP growth looks uncertain for Q1 Only for Q1? - yield curve inversion this year[...]
  2018-04-07 19:17:13

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  March non-farm payrolls +103K vs +185K expected

  Highlights of the March 2018 non-farm payrolls report - was 313K (was highest since July 2016) - Unemployment rate 4.1% vs +4.0% expected - Participation rate 62.9%[...]
  2018-04-07 15:25:12

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  PBOC says China is to control credit risks in key areas

  Comments by China's central bank Moving forward, I expect more comments such as these from the PBOC. Xi Jinping is adamant on cracking down on[...]
  2018-04-07 15:17:12

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  Anyone have a crystal ball to read NFP data ?

  US wages and jobs data your next risk at 12.30 GMT Plenty of guesses and calculations but do you want to risk flipping a coin[...]
  2018-04-06 23:25:13

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  The kiwi gathers added support from bids against the aussie

  The NZD has been among the top performers so far this week The kiwi only lags behind the Canadian dollar in terms of performance against[...]
  2018-04-06 21:14:13

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  USD/JPY nears the 107.00 handle, what's next?

  The pair is trading near session highs on the day, just shy of the figure level The rationale behind trading the pair this week is[...]
  2018-04-06 21:14:13

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