Time | Country | Event | Period | Previous value | Forecast | Actual |
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00:30 | Australia | Private Capital Expenditure | Quarter III | 3.4% | -2% | -2.2% |
05:00 | Japan | Coincident Index | September | 91.3 | | 88.7 |
05:00 | Japan | Leading Economic Index | September | 101.3 | | 100.9 |
07:00 | Germany | Gfk Consumer Confidence Survey | December | 1 | -0.5 | -1.6 |
07:00 | Germany | GDP (YoY) | Quarter III | 10.0% | 2.5% | 2.5% |
07:00 | Germany | GDP (QoQ) | Quarter III | 2.0% | 1.8% | 1.7% |
During today's Asian trading, the US dollar declined moderately against major currencies after strengthening the day before amid signals about the possibility of a faster-than-expected tightening of policy by the Federal Reserve.
The minutes of the Fed meeting of November 2-3, published on Wednesday, showed that the leaders of the Fed noted the importance of a flexible approach to the pace of curtailing the asset repurchase program, as well as to the timing of an increase in the base interest rate.
After this meeting, October inflation data were published in the United States, which showed an acceleration in consumer price growth to 6.2% in annual terms - the highest since 1990. Meanwhile, data on the US labor market indicate an improvement in the situation: the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits for the first time decreased by 71 thousand last week - to 199 thousand people, the lowest since 1969.
Some of the Fed's leaders, including Fed Deputy Chairman Richard Clarida, member of the Board of Governors Christopher Waller, as well as the heads of the Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis and San Francisco, James Ballard and Mary Daly, have already made it clear that they are ready to discuss increasing the pace of reduction of the asset repurchase program at a December meeting.
The ICE index, which tracks the dynamics of the dollar against six currencies (euro, swiss franc, yen, сanadian dollar, pound sterling and swedish krona), fell 0.17%.