Month: April 2018

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  USD/CAD eats into the Bank of Canada gains as oil bites

  USD/CAD is slowly giving back Wednesday's gains The Bank of Canada didn't say they were going to hike in May, but they didn't exactly say[...]
  2018-04-19 23:25:19

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  Fedspeak tops the economic calendar in US trading

  Not much to get excited about The calendar is light on economic data but heavy on Fedspeak in New York trade. The speakers include Brainard[...]
  2018-04-19 23:25:19

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  Weekly US initial jobless claims 232K vs 230K expected

  Initial jobless claims for the week ending April 14 - Prior was 233K - Continuing claims 1863K vs 1845K exp
  2018-04-19 23:25:19

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  Deutsche Bank briefly lost 28 billion euros in transaction error

  Odd report Deutsche Bank, which has had one blunder after another, is said to have briefly sent 28 billion euros ($35 billion) out of the[...]
  2018-04-19 23:25:09

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  USD/CAD climbs above the Bank of Canada highs but risks loom

  USD/CAD up to the best levels of the day Yesterday was all about Canadian dollar selling, today it's all about US dollar buying. In any[...]
  2018-04-19 23:25:09

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  Cable plunges below 1.41 after Carney frets about mixed economic data

  The market wanted a hawkish signal You can usually depend on Mark Carney to be a hawk. He's repeatedly lured the market into false starts[...]
  2018-04-19 23:25:09

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  Forza Italia lawmaker Brunetta says party not willing to offer support to 5-Star coaltion

  It's tough to make a coalition The 5-Star party is trying to hammer out a coalition with Liga and is trying to do it informally[...]
  2018-04-19 23:25:09

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  US stock market futures point to a dip

  S&P 500 futures down 8 points The S&P 500 was up by as much as 11 points yesterday but faded late to finish up just[...]
  2018-04-19 23:25:09

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  NAFTA leaders said to agree on telecom chapter

  11 chapters now reportedly settled Report from Bloomberg. Leaders are meeting today in Washington and hope to have a deal done in the first week[...]
  2018-04-19 23:25:09

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  The ebb and flow of the FX market leaves it flat

  A bit of GBP strength, a bit of NZD weakness There has been some volatility today but the FX market is mostly where it started[...]
  2018-04-19 23:25:09

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