Kuroda filled the Christmas stockings of anyone long yen last week. If you missed that, we hope that Santa Claus brings you something special. Trading on Monday will be extremely thin and it will be choppy all next week as the year winds down. Have a look at the economic calendar to see what’s coming
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Bitcoin (BTC) entered the Christmas holiday period unchanged at $16,800 as an eerie lack of volatility persevered.  BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Hopeful price target sees Bitcoin at $17,400  Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView confirmed another day of an almost imperceptible range for BTC/USD just below $17,000. The pair had struggled
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After recent releases from the US Census Bureau, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the National Association of Realtors, the nowcasts of fourth-quarter real personal consumption expenditures growth and fourth-quarter real gross private domestic investment growth increased from 3.4 percent and -0.2 percent, respectively, to 3.6 percent and 3.8 percent, respectively,” the release from
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EURUSD chops around near the middle of the range. The EURUSD is doing it’s pre-holiday thing…That is chopping around. Looking at the hourly chart, hopes were dashed yesterday fairly quickly when the price moved above the swing highs from Monday and Tuesday, but only by a few pips. Hopes were then dashed again when the
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Some good economic data points today drove a jump in the Atlanta Fed GDPNow tracker for Q4 to +3.7% from +2.7%. “After recent releases from the US Census Bureau, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the National Association of Realtors, the nowcasts of fourth-quarter real personal consumption expenditures growth and fourth-quarter real gross private
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Trading is rather subdued in pre-holiday markets today. Yen was softer in Asian session but remains the strongest one for the week, maintaining most of post-BoJ gains. There was little reaction to CPI data from Japan. Canadian Dollar is the second strongest followed by Swiss France. On the other hand, New Zealand Dollar is the
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Analysts at BBH offer a brief preview of Friday’s important US macro data, the Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) Price Index. The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge – Core PCE Price Index – is expected to have decelerated to the 4.7% YoY rate in November from 5.0% in the previous month. Key Quotes: “Consensus sees 4.6% y/y
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