Forex Calendar

(eToro Blog) In the U.S., economic data continues to be eclipsed, at least in the media, by the financing frenzy surrounding the Facebook IPO which is set to launch tomorrow. Nonetheless, there were some events worthy of note in the U.S.; yesterday, the Federal Reserve released the minutes of its most recent policy meeting. While [...]

(eToro Blog) Earlier today, the ECB announced that its benchmark rate of 1% would be unchanged, in line with expectations, and investors were clearly anxious to hear the bank’s stance now given the most recent economic data, for a clue to how and when the central bank intends to address the economies’ retrogression. At the [...]

Currency performance 2012: http://link.reuters.com/tak27s Dollar yen rate and 2-yr bond spread: http://link.reuters.com/vyf36s ^^^^^> The U.S. economic data calendar this week is light, with an emphasis on housing.

A relatively quiet US economic calendar will mean that the realization of such ... February’s batch of housing statistics headlines the docket. – IS DailyFX provides forex news and technical analysis on the trends that influence the global ...

(eToro Blog) After a slew of better than expected economic data which supports the Fed’s new and improved outlook for the state of the U.S. economy, the U.S. Dollar had been trading broadly higher for the better part of the week. That appears to have come to a halt as profit taking is full steam [...]

(eToro Blog) Following several days of unexpectedly good economic data points from the U.S., including non-farms data on Friday and improving retail sales yesterday, the Federal Reserve’s FOMC unsurprisingly announced yesterday that there would be no changes to the current monetary policy and that the benchmark lending rate of 0.25% would be unchanged. That announcement [...]