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  1. News in 60 Seconds: Canada blows out its employment numbers to the upside!

    by , 07-09-2010 at 09:56 AM (News in 60 Seconds)
    CAD blows out its employment numbers to the upside: Employment Change +93.2k vs. 17.9k expected. Last time was 24.7k.

    CAD Unemployment Rate better/lower at 7.9% vs. 8.1% expected and 8.1% last time. http://www.dailyfx.com/forex/fundame...mployment.html

    Biggest % gainers: CAD/JPY up 1.32%, USD/CHF, GBP/CHF, EUR/CHF on CAD strength and CHF weakness.

    Biggest % losers: EUR/CAD down 1.65%, AUD/CAD down 1.24%, USD/CAD down 1.06%, on CAD strength.

    GBP PPI Input m/m worse at -0.2% vs. 0.1% expected. Last time revised higher to -0.2% vs. -0.6% formerly.

    CAD Housing Starts worse ...
  2. News in 60 Seconds: Gold hits a new all time high!

    by , 06-08-2010 at 09:47 AM (News in 60 Seconds)
    Biggest % gainers: AUD/JPY up 1%, AUD/USD, CHF/JPY, CAD/JPY, NZD/JPY, NZD/USD on commodity dollar strength and yen weakness. (The riskier currencies perked up after Bernanke's speech last night; yen tumbled). http://www.dailyfx.com/forex/fundame...ecline_as.html

    Biggest % losers: GBP/AUD down 1.38%, GBP/CHF down 1.20% ...GBP taking a pretty good hit this morning! Fitch comments weigh on the Pound: http://www.dailyfx.com/forex/fundame..._by_Fitch.html

    Gold $1,241 (but got as high as $1,251.68 this morning, which is a new all time high!)
    Oil $71.82 ...
  3. News in 60 Seconds: Yen gains as Stock Futures fall & Google misses profit estimates!

    by , 04-16-2010 at 09:24 AM (News in 60 Seconds)
    Biggest % gainers: USD/CHF up 0.45%, USD/CAD on mild USD strength.

    Biggest % losers: CHF/JPY down 0.99%, EUR/JPY, AUD/JPY, GBP/JPY, USD/JPY on very strong yen.

    USD Building Permits better at 0.69M(million) vs. 0.63M expected. Last time revised upward to 0.64M from 0.61M formerly.

    USD Housing Starts better
    at 0.63M vs. 0.60M expected. Last time revised higher at 0.62M vs. 0.58M formerly.

    FOMC's Warsh speaks at 9am EST today.

    University of Michigan Sentiment comes out at 9:55am EST today. Expectation is for 74.7. Last time has already been revised upward to 73.6 vs. 72.5 formerly.

    FOMC's Hoenig speaks at 1pm EST today.

    Gold $1147 ...
  4. News in 60 Seconds: Euro gets a boost on announcement of details of Greek aid!

    by , 04-12-2010 at 10:03 AM (News in 60 Seconds)
    Biggest % gainers: EUR/CAD up 1.23%, EUR/AUD, EUR/JPY on a huge gap upward over the weekend for the euro. Greece got a promise of as much as 45 billion euros ($61 billion) in loans yesterday from the euro-region and International Monetary Fund to help cover its financing needs and avoid a default.

    Biggest % losers: AUD/CHF down 1.31%, USD/CHF, GBP/CHF on CHF strength.

    Oil $84.51
    Gold $1,161

    Stocks open up higher...

    CAD Housing Starts worse at 197k vs. 201k expected BUT last time was revised higher to 200k vs. 197k formerly.

    CAD Bank of Canada Business Outlook Survey comes out at 10:30am EST today.

    Talk that Brazil could start to raise interest ...
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