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Central banks, data releases and what is moving gold and the majors this week.

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The ECB meets on 28 October after a September rate rise. What else do you watch?
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0384 d ago
The Fed decides on 28 October after its September hike. What would change your dollar view?
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0414 d ago
Canada's CPI rose to 3.1% on gasoline. How do you trade CAD when fuel drives inflation?
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0375 d ago
Builder confidence fell to 29, its lowest since 2012. Do you use builder surveys in your trading?
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0365 d ago
US housing starts fell 5.2% in September. Is housing still a useful signal for the dollar?
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0365 d ago
German wholesale prices rose 8.7%. Do you follow the price pipeline through to consumer inflation?
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0395 d ago
ZEW expectations fell 6.6 points to 28.1. Do analyst surveys move the euro for you?
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0415 d ago
UK vacancies fell below 700,000. Would a cooling job market change how you trade GBP?
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0425 d ago
UK inflation rose to 3.5% on motor fuels. Do you treat fuel-led inflation differently for sterling?
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0505 d ago
New Zealand inflation fell to 3.7%, but petrol kept it high. Does NZD/USD react to quarterly CPI?
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0405 d ago
The 10-year yield fell 17 basis points on 22 October. Did EUR/USD follow it for you?
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0455 d ago
The euro fell to 0.8377 pounds, its lowest ECB reference since May 2025. Data or positioning?
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0605 d ago
The euro area flash PMI fell to a four-month low. What would change your view of the ECB?
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0425 d ago
UK services PMI hit an eight-month high of 53.1. Does a survey like that move sterling for you?
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0535 d ago
Canadian manufacturing sales rose 1.5% but were flat in volume. Does a price-driven gain move the Canadian dollar?
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0539 d ago
The 10-year Treasury yield fell from 5.31% to 5.09% in eight sessions. Do you need a reason before you trade it?
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0749 d ago
INSEE put France at 3.1% on its final figure. Should a national print move your euro view before the total?
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0529 d ago
Euro inflation was confirmed at 3.8%, but the trade balance swung to a €16.1bn deficit. Which matters more for EUR?
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0769 d ago
China's PPI rose to 5.0% while its CPI stayed at 0.9%. Does the factory-gate gap matter for the Australian dollar?
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0609 d ago
German factory orders fell 10.6% in August while output rose 2.0%. Which number do you lean on for Germany?
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0579 d ago
New York's factory index jumped to 25.5 while Philadelphia's fell to 20.9. Which regional survey do you trust?
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0849 d ago
US industrial output rose 0.7% in September, but utilities did much of the work. Do you trade the headline?
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0539 d ago
USD/JPY is near 158 after the July intervention at around 160. How do you think about the risk of another one?
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018222 d ago
OPEC+ held quotas unchanged for November. Do quota decisions still move your oil or CAD and NOK trades?
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06622 d ago
Consumer confidence fell to 81.9 while inflation expectations rose to 6.1%. Do you trade sentiment surveys or ignore them?
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016522 d ago
ADP said 90,000 jobs and the BLS said 29,000. How do you reconcile two US jobs numbers two days apart?
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011222 d ago
Canada's GDP was flat in July ahead of the Bank of Canada on 28 October. Which Canadian number do you weight most?
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07822 d ago
China's PMIs crossed back above 50 in September. Does that change how you trade the Australian dollar?
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09722 d ago
Swiss inflation is 1.0% and the euro is at its lowest since May 2025. Is EUR/CHF telling a different story from EUR/USD?
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07722 d ago
UK GDP was revised up to 0.5% while mortgage approvals fell to 54,900. How do you weigh sterling's growth against the housing slowdown?
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011122 d ago
Euro area factory-gate prices are up 8.2% on the year but non-energy industrial goods inflation is 1.1%. Who absorbs the gap?
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06922 d ago
German inflation is 3.3%, French 3.0% and the euro area 3.8%. Which national number do you check first?
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010722 d ago
The euro hit its lowest level since May 2025 while the ECB is raising rates. What does that say about rate differentials?
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010722 d ago
Australia's CPI hit 4.0% but trimmed mean stayed at 3.6%. Which inflation measure do you follow?
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012723 d ago
The ISM prices index jumped to 77.9. Do you treat price surveys as an early warning for CPI?
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010223 d ago
The Bank of Japan's board is split between 'accelerate if prices overshoot' and 'no need for haste'. How do you trade a divided central bank?
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08823 d ago
Tokyo core CPI jumped to 2.7%, partly on base effects. Do you adjust for one-off effects before you trade an inflation number?
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017323 d ago
Euro area inflation jumped to 3.8% with energy up 18.8%. Does the ECB have to act again, and how do you trade the wait?
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014723 d ago
Treasury yields are the highest since 2002 while gold sits far below its January record. How do you trade that link?
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07923 d ago
US payrolls rose 29,000 and July was revised to a loss. Which number did you act on first?
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09123 d ago
The RBA changed its guidance from 'if upside risks materialise' to 'if needed'. How do you read a one-phrase change?
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011923 d ago
US business activity hit a five-year high in September, but so did input costs. Good news for the dollar, or a warning sign?
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0961 mo ago
Australia's jobless rate has risen two months running right before the RBA meets. How do you position into that?
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01001 mo ago
The SNB keeps repeating its intervention warning about the franc. Does that wording actually change how you trade CHF?
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0971 mo ago
Norges Bank raised its rate and the Riksbank held: how are you trading the split between NOK and SEK?
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0971 mo ago
Flash PMIs land on Wednesday 23 September. Do you trade the flash reading or wait for the final figures?
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01021 mo ago
The RBA decides on 29 September, a day before August CPI. How do you plan around a central bank that moves before the data?
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0941 mo ago
Tokyo's markets are closed from 21 to 23 September. Do you change how you trade yen pairs on Japanese holidays?
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01021 mo ago
The US Treasury is buying back more long-dated bonds until 4 November. Do you watch long-bond yields when you trade currencies?
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0921 mo ago
The BIS says the dollar gave back most of its July gains in August. How do you tell a dollar trend from a bounce?
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0911 mo ago