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Factory orders from Germany and final composite Purchasing Managers' survey from euro area are due on Wednesday, headlining a light day for the European economic news. At 2.00 am ET, Destatis is set to release Germany's factory orders for March. Economists forecast orders to fall 10 percent on month

Let's investigate the Fed's effort to prevent price deflation. Here's a Tweet that caught my eye.  "Problem with deflation is- Why buy anything if you know it will be cheaper in the future.," responded one person.  Let's investigate that question starting with a look at the CPI basket. CPI Percenta

USD/JPY registers five-day losing streak, fails to respect the latest risk-reset. Hopes of economic restart confront a likely US-China tussle. Recently downbeat US data favor cautious sentiment ahead of the key US GDP, FOMC. USD/JPY drops to 106.70, down 0.17% on a day, as Wednesday’s market-openin

Australia's March-quarter Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures, including two of the several underlying measures that the central bank looks at, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday is out – Australia Q1 trimmed-mean CPI has arrived at +0.5 pct QoQ vs the Reuters poll of +0.4 p

Daily Pivots: (S1) 106.96; (P) 107.29; (R1) 107.60; No change in USD/JPY’s outlook as intraday bias remains neutral first. On the downside, break of 106.91 will resume the decline from 111.71 to 100% projection of 111.71 to 106.91 from 109.38 at 104.58. On the upside, break of 109.38 will suggest th

Black Gold, Black Swan: Is Negative the new normal?