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Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Apr 22 – Apr 26) Inflation data from the US and Australia, BoJ meeting, preliminary PMI data from the Eurozone and the UK and Q1 GDP from the US will highlight the week ahead of us. USD March retail sales report was scorching hot. Headline number saw increase...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Apr 15 – Apr 19) GDP and activity data from China, inflation data from the UK, Japan, Canada and New Zealand, employment data from the UK and Australia as well as consumption data from the US will highlight the week ahead of us. USD March inflation report came...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Apr 8 – Apr 12) ECB, RBNZ and BoC meetings combined with inflation from the US and China will dominate the week ahead of us. USD ISM manufacturing surprised to the upside in March and returned to expansion for the first time since October of 2022. It printed...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Apr 1 – Apr 5) NFP data combined with inflation data from the Eurozone will dominate the markets in the week that will also see ISM PMI data from the US, employment data from Canada and inflation data from Switzerland. USD Atlanta Fed President Bostic forecast...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Mar 25 – Mar 29) The week ahead of us will provide us a breather from the massive week we just head which will give investors time to digest implications of recent central bank decisions and economic data. Most important news event will be on Friday when we will...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Mar 18 – Mar 22) Fed, BoE, RBA, BoJ and SNB (no less than 5 central banks) meetings, inflation from the UK and Canada, employment from Australia, preliminary PMI data from the Eurozone and the UK as well as industrial production and retail sales from China will...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Mar 11 – Mar 15) Inflation and consumption from the US and employment from the UK will dominate in the rather quiet week ahead of us. USD ISM services 52.6 vs 53 as expected and down from January when it printed 53.4. Digging into the details we can see some...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Mar 4 – Mar 8) ECB and BoC meetings, NFP and Canadian employment coupled with Q4 GDP, Swiss inflation, UK spring budget and ISM Services PMI will dominate the week ahead of us. USD Second reading of Q4 GDP was revised down to 3.2% from 3.3% as reported in...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Feb 26 – Mar 1) RBNZ meeting, PCE from the US and CPI from Eurozone will highlight the week ahead of us that will also contain Q4 GDP data from the US, Canada and Switzerland as well as official PMI data from China. USD The main message from the FOMC minutes is...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Feb 19 – Feb 23) Inflation data from the Eurozone and Canada coupled with PMIs from the Eurozone and the UK along with FOMC minutes will be highlights of the week ahead of us. NVDA will report earnings on Wednesday. Please be mindful that Monday is President’s...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Feb 12 – Feb 16) Inflation data from the US, the UK and Switzerland, Q4 GDP from the UK and Japan as well as employment data from the UK and Australia coupled with consumption data from the US will highlight a very busy week ahead of us. USD OECD has raised...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Feb 5 – Feb 9) RBA meeting, inflation data from China, employment data from New Zealand and Canada as well as PMI data from the US and China will highlight the week ahead of us. USD Fed has left rate unchanged in the range of 5.25-5.50% as widely expected. The...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Jan 29 – Feb 2) We are in for a massive week that will see Fed and BoE meetings, preliminary Q4 GDP and January CPI from the Eurozone, NFP and Q4 CPI data from Australia. Additionally, we will get QRA from Treasury and earnings from big tech companies. USD Fed...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Jan 22 – Jan 26) BoJ, BoC and ECB open the year for central banks meetings, we will also have advanced Q4 GDP from the US as well as preliminary January PMI data from the Eurozone and the UK. USD Fed Governor Waller gave a speech in which he confirmed that...

Forex Major Currencies Outlook (Jan 15 – Jan 19) Q4 GDP from China, inflation data from the UK and Canada, employment data from the UK and Australia will highlight the week ahead of us. USD December CPI report came in hotter. Headline number came in at 3.4% y/y vs 3.2% y/y as expected and up...