Economic News Category

Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee Preview The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee will meet tomorrow to decide on interest rates. The MPC meeting will be sandwiched between FOMC rate decision that will have taken place today, and the ECB rate decision that would follow an hour and a bit later. The GBP/USD, EUR/GBP

The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee Preview The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee will complete its two-day meeting tomorrow. The committee will release its monetary policy statement and Summary of Economic Projections at 2:00pm ET, with Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference starting 30mins later at 2:30pm ET. Most traders expect the central bank to

US CPI Preview: CPI To Remain Elevated On Tuesday, December 13th , the US will release its CPI reading for November. Expectations are for the headline print to come in at 7.6% YoY after a surprisingly lower than expected October print of 7.7% YoY. If the print is in-line with expectations, it would be the

Bank Of Canada’s hikes interest rate 50 basis points   BoC hikes by 50 bps to 4.25%, bringing cumulative tightening to 400 bps this year. Slightly hawkish surprise, consensus was split between 25 and 50 bps. Soft tightening bias opens the door to a January pause. The BoC lifted its overnight rate by 50 bps

The Australian Q3 GDP Economy | Xtreamforex Australian economy expands by 0.6%, a little softer than expected. The impacts of high inflation and higher interest rates are becoming apparent – notably, the real estate sector on lower turnover subtracted 0.2ppts from activity in the period. The Australian economy expanded by 0.6% in the September quarter.