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12:30am CAD CPI m/m
Forecast 1.10% Releases 0.50%
12:30am CAD Median CPI y/y
Forecast 2.40% Releases 2.30%
12:30am CAD Trimmed CPI y/y
Forecast 2.30% Releases 2.30%
12:30am CAD Common CPI y/y
Forecast 2.60% Releases 2.40%
4:40am EUR ECB President Lagarde Speaks
10:45am NZD CPI q/q
Forecast 0.80% Releases 0.60%
6:00pm GBP Claimant Count Change
Forecast 21.4K Releases 24.7K
6:00pm GBP Average Earnings Index 3m/y
Forecast 3.60% Releases 3.90%
12:30am USD Core Retail Sales m/m
Forecast 1.30% Releases 0.50%
12:30am USD Retail Sales m/m
Forecast 1.40% Releases 0.60%
2:00am USD Fed Chair-Designate Warsh Testifies
2:00am USD Pending Home Sales m/m
Forecast 0.00% Releases 1.80%
6:00pm GBP CPI y/y
Forecast 3.30% Releases 3.00%
5:30am EUR ECB President Lagarde Speaks
7:15pm EUR French Flash Manufacturing PMI
Forecast 49.5 Releases 50
7:15pm EUR French Flash Services PMI
Forecast 48.5 Releases 48.8
7:30pm EUR German Flash Manufacturing PMI
Forecast 51.3 Releases 52.2
7:30pm EUR German Flash Services PMI
Forecast 50.4 Releases 50.9
8:30pm GBP Flash Manufacturing PMI
Forecast 50.2 Releases 51
8:30pm GBP Flash Services PMI
Forecast 50 Releases 50.5
12:30am USD Unemployment Claims
Forecast 210K Releases 207K
1:45am USD Flash Manufacturing PMI
Forecast 52.5 Releases 52.3
1:45am USD Flash Services PMI
Forecast 50.1 Releases 49.8
6:00pm GBP Retail Sales m/m
Forecast 0.10% Releases -0.40%
12:30am CAD Core Retail Sales m/m
Forecast 0.80% Releases 0.80%
12:30am CAD Retail Sales m/m
Forecast 0.90% Releases 1.10%
2:00am USD Revised UoM Consumer Sentiment
Forecast 48.4 Releases 47.6
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Trump extended the ceasefire, opening the door for negotiations to recommence, but the Iranians do not seem to be interested. They have refused further negotiations, under the shadow of threats, calling for the US blockade to be lifted.
Read more →Oil prices surged ahead of the scheduled end of the US/Iran ceasefire. Key negotiations are not ongoing, in the physical sense, but may be happening via an intermediary. Rhetoric coming from Iran is not positive and markets are feeling nervous.
Read more →Markets opened the week in a state of nervous apprehension, as the ceasefire deadline is set to expire and the US seized and boarded an Iranian ship. Negotiations are set to resume, prior to the expiration of the ceasefire Tuesday, and hopes are high for a resolution.
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