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U.S. Initial Jobless Claims

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Jan 24, 2019

Actual

199K

Forecast

219K

212K

Initial Jobless Claims measures the number of people who filed for unemployment insurance for the first time during the past week. This is the most timely U.S. economic data, but the market impact varies from week to week.
A reading that is higher than forecast is generally negative (bearish) for the USD, while a lower than forecast reading is generally supportive (bullish) for the USD.

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Source: Department of Labor

Release Date	Time	Actual	Forecast	Previous
Jan 31, 2019	13:30			199K
Jan 24, 2019	13:30	199K	219K	212K
Jan 17, 2019	13:30	213K	219K	216K
Jan 10, 2019	13:30	216K	225K	233K
Jan 03, 2019	13:30	231K	220K	221K
Dec 27, 2018	13:30	216K	217K	217K

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the text for this release needs altering (still) it reads as bullish whatever happens, I think most people now what the correct statement is but why have anything at all if you are going to leave it incorrect for so long?

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FTSE 100	6,816.75	-26.13	-0.38%
DAX	11,084.19	+12.65	+0.11%
Euro Stoxx 50	3,119.05	+6.92	+0.22%
S&P 500 Futures	2,637.62	-0.63	-0.02%
Nasdaq Futures	6,686.25	+21.00	+0.32%
Nikkei 225	20,574.63	-19.09	-0.09%
Euro Index	91.61	-0.21	-0.23%
Bitcoin Futures	3,557.5	+22.5	+0.64%

Brent Oil	60.92	-0.22	-0.36%
Crude Oil WTI	52.56	-0.06	-0.11%
Gold	1,280.05	-3.95	-0.31%
Silver	15.332	-0.048	-0.31%
Copper	2.648	-0.006	-0.24%
London Cocoa	1,623.00	-10.00	-0.61%
London Wheat	168.60	-0.00	0.00%
Natural Gas	3.087	+0.107	+3.59%

GBP/USD	1.3047	-0.0020	-0.15%
EUR/USD	1.1349	-0.0032	-0.28%
USD/JPY	109.55	-0.04	-0.04%
EUR/GBP	0.8700	-0.0006	-0.07%
USD/CAD	1.3351	+0.0013	+0.10%
GBP/JPY	142.92	-0.28	-0.20%
AUD/USD	0.7107	-0.0034	-0.48%
GBP/EUR	1.1497	+0.0016	+0.14%

BTC/USD	3,637.7	-26.3	-0.72%
ETH/USD	118.81	-1.94	-1.61%
BCH/USD	128.66	-1.22	-0.94%
IOT/USD	0.29681	-0.01079	-3.51%
LTC/USD	32.100	-0.050	-0.16%
BTC/GBP	2,609.2	+143.5	+5.82%
XRP/USD	0.31620	-0.00210	-0.66%
XLM/USD	0.10099	-0.00141	-1.38%

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1.3046

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0.7107

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124.30

-0.41 -0.33%

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EUR/USD	1.1348	Strong Buy
GBP/USD	1.3046	Strong Buy
USD/JPY	109.56	Strong Sell
AUD/USD	0.7107	Strong Buy
USD/CAD	1.3350	Strong Sell
EUR/JPY	124.30	Sell
EUR/CHF	1.1286	Buy

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	Interest Rates	Next Meeting
BOE	0.75%	Feb 07, 2019
ECB	0.00%	Jan 24, 2019
FED	2.50%	Jan 30, 2019
SNB	-0.75%	Mar 21, 2019
RBA	1.50%	Feb 05, 2019
BOC	1.75%	Mar 06, 2019
RBNZ	1.75%	Feb 13, 2019
BOJ	-0.10%	Jan 23, 2019
CBR	7.75%	Feb 08, 2019
RBI	6.50%	Feb 07, 2019
PBOC	4.35%
BCB	6.50%	Feb 06, 2019