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Last week’s inflation data in the United States boosted the US dollar’s recovery as US Treasury bond yields aimed higher. The AUD/USD pair is eyeing the busy economic calendar in Australia and the US next week.The Australian dollar finished the week with negative performance after hitting a daily high of …

There were 194,000 initial jobless claims in the week ending February 11, the weekly data published by the US Department of Labor (DOL) showed on Thursday. This print followed the previous week’s print of 195,000 and came in slightly better than the market expectation of 200,000. Further details of the …

These are undoubtedly the beliefs of some investors, who ignore slight increases in annual inflation rates because they believe the downward trend will continue. That means that markets are in a risk-on mode. The Core Consumer Price Index (Core CPI), which increased by 0.4% MoM in January as predicted, is …

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures for January on Tuesday, February 14 at 13:30 GMT and as we get closer to the release time, here are the forecasts by the economists and researchers of 12 major banks regarding the upcoming US inflation …

There were 196,000 initial jobless claims in the week ending February 4, the weekly data published by the US Department of Labor (DOL) showed on Thursday. This print followed the previous week’s print of 183,000 and came in slightly worse than the market expectation of 190,000. The publication revealed that …

On Friday, the US will release the official employment report for January.  Some analysts expect a 220K increase in payroll and a modest increase in the unemployment rate to 3.6%. Other expectations suggest 185,000 rise in Nonfarm Payrolls data following the 223,000 increase in December. The first US NFP report …

Gold seems unable to benefit from the falling US Treasury. On the other hand, the US dollar recovered some ground, on the back of the Euro and Pound Sterling fall. On Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve hiked rates by 25 bps and signaled it is about to end its cycle. …

There were 183,000 initial jobless claims in the week ending January 28, the weekly data published by the US Department of Labor (DOL) showed on Thursday. This print followed the previous week’s print of 186,000 and came in better than the market expectation of 200,000. Further details of the publication …

The US labour productivity rose for the second consecutive quarter in 2022’s fourth quarter, although for the year as a whole productivity posted its biggest decline in nearly five decades.US nonfarm labour productivity which is a measure of goods and services produced in the US per hour worked, rose at …

The data published by Automatic Data Processing (ADP) showed on Wednesday that private sector employment in the US rose by 106,000 in January. This reading followed December’s growth of 253,000 (revised from 235,000) and missed the market expectation for an increase of 178,000 by a wide margin.