- Monday, 26 June 2017
- News
Durable Goods Orders dropped by 1.1%
Orders for non-military capital goods excluding aircraft fell 0.2% (est. 0.4% gain) after 0.2% increase in prior month. Shipments of those goods, which are used to calculate gross domestic product, fell 0.2% after 0.1% gain. Bookings for all durable goods fell 1.1% (est. 0.6% drop) following 0.9% decline; excluding transportation-equipment demand, which is volatile, orders rose 0.1% (est. 0.4% gain). Read more...
- Saturday, 24 June 2017
- News
USD - Major events in the week ahead
Events that marked the week:
On Tuesday Current Account figures were released. The U.S. current-account deficit increased to $116.8 billion (preliminary) in the first quarter of 2017 from $114.0 billion (revised) in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to statisticsreleased by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The deficit increased to 2.5 percent of current-dollar gross domestic product (GDP) from 2.4 percent in the fourth quarter.
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- Friday, 23 June 2017
- News
New Home Sales surged to 610,000
Sales of new single-family houses in May 2017 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 610,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 2.9 percent above the revised April rate of 593,000 and is 8.9 percent above the May 2016 estimate of 560,000.
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- Thursday, 22 June 2017
- News
Unemployment Claims in line with market expectations
In the week ending June 17, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 241,000, an increase of 3,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 1,000 from 237,000 to 238,000. The 4-week moving average was 244,750, an increase of 1,500 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised up by 250 from 243,000 to 243,250.
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