Subject: Econ Forecast for February 9-14, 2025
Econ Forecast for February 9-14, 2025
February 9th, 2025 at 8:54 am EDTHi Folks. Not the best week for news coming up, aside from the USA once again getting the Unholy Triumvirate of CPI, PPI and Retail Sales, in that order. There is some moderately important Fed Speak on tap (Lagarde testifies before the EU Parliamen ...
Econ Forecast for Feb. 2-7, 2025
February 2nd, 2025 at 10:22 am EDTHi Folks. Here is this week's forecast. SUNDAY: Typical Sunday night (aka Asia Open). A bunch of different numbers from Japan and Australia, most of which you can safely ignore. But at 7:30 p.m. my time Australia releases their Retail Sales m/m num ...
Econ Forecast for January 26-31, 2025
January 26th, 2025 at 9:21 am EDTHi Folks. A quick note before we begin: the USA, CAN, and EU all have interest rate decisions on the calendar this week, so be aware they are out there. Because even if you have no plans to trade them, an announcement, even though planned, can shoc ...
Econ Forecast for Jan. 19-24, 2025
January 19th, 2025 at 10:05 am EDTHi Folks. Here is this week's forecast. SUNDAY: Before I get started with tonight's numbers I want to make a quick point that applies to all the international numbers (meaning non-USA). Whenever I say a number is not likely to move price much or at ...
Econ Forecast for January 12-17, 2025
January 12th, 2025 at 2:24 pm EDTHi Folks. Here is this week's forecast. SUNDAY: A slow start to the week. New Zealand issues a forgettable number 15 minutes before the markets open so that's a non-issue. Japan has a holiday today (Monday for them) and while Australia has a pair o ...
Econ Forecast for Jan. 5-10, 2025
January 5th, 2025 at 2:46 pm EDTHi Folks. Welcome to the first Econ Forecast for 2025. You'll notice a few changes in the Forecast, primarily the addition of an occasional comment on some Asian or London session reports, for those of you who trade those sessions. This required a ...
Econ Forecast for Dec.30, 2024-Jan. 3, 2025
December 29th, 2024 at 4:22 pm EDTHi Folks. Welcome to the year end/ year beginning Econ Forecast. Thanks to the second week of mid-week holidays, it's a short one. MONDAY: Surprisingly small calendar today (and tomorrow) considering the day before a holiday they usually jam two da ...
Econ Forecast for Dec. 23-27, 2024
December 22nd, 2024 at 8:26 pm EDTHi Folks. Here is the econ forecast for Christmas week. You probably already know this but I'll say it anyway: Christmas week is the worst week for trading. Pretty much the entire western world just doesn't show up this week so volume is all but no ...
Econ Forecast for Dec 16-20, 2024
December 15th, 2024 at 2:51 pm EDTHi Folks, Here is this week's US based economic forecast. MONDAY: We start out a busier than average Monday at 8:30 a.m. with the Empire State Manufacturing Index, which is not exactly a number a lot of traders pay attention to, and that's likely m ...
Econ Forecast for Dec. 9-13, 2024
December 8th, 2024 at 3:13 pm EDTHi Folks. Here's this week's forecast, and yes, it's actually this short. MONDAY: The sole entry of today's calendar for the USA is Final Wholesale Inventories at 10:00 a.m. eastern. I can't think of a single instance in the last 20 years where tra ...