FOMC is still on course to increase rates this year according to comments from a number of Fed officials. Analysts continue to forecast 25 bp increases in June and December. Yellen’s dovish speech on Tuesday imparts non-negligible risk to that outlook. She outlined a number of uncertainties to the outlook, including still slow growth, especially noting China and the potential bearish spillover across the Asian regions.
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After a 6 month investigation into the global oil industry it was revealed that billions of dollars of government contracts were awarded as the direct result of bribes paid on behalf of companies including Halliburton, its former subsidiary KBR, Rolls-Royce and Samsung. They counted on Unaoil to funnel the bribes and to secure lucrative contracts in Iraq, Kazakhstan, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, and other countries in Africa, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union.
The COT Report is the single most important report issued by the CFTC revealing internal market dynamics. It’s some kind of sentiment indicator. The data collected on a weekly basis contains market positions of the largest futures traders. Let’s see how we can use the report to accurately predict market turns.
We gonna show you something really interesting and when done correctly it can be exploited. We are talking about imbalances. You can basically do this with any time frame and any contract especially those with rising volatility and severe directional price changes for a prolonged period of time.
We want to fill a gap here. A lot of economic data is published day in and day out but yet most of us don’t really understand the lingo behind it. Let’s bring some clarity into this. Regularly we come across certain terms dealing with measures of economic activity. Most of them are pretty straight forward if you give it a chance.
Why is the employment situation report an important economic indicator and how do we interpret the report to get clues on the strength of the Economy. Its important to look at the different parts of the report and anlyze the different key data points to get an insight into how specific industries are perfoming.
What are the most important economic indicators and how you can use them in your day to day trading ventures. How are markets reacting to certain indicators and which of them are those that really matter.The following article shows you the economic indicators that track the health of the U.S. Economy and how the numbers should be interpreted when trying to come up with meaningful conclusions about the current state of the economy.