ForexLive European FX news wrap: Currencies muted awaiting US jobless claims, Trump

Headlines: Heads up: Trump set to address world leaders in Davos later today Weekly update on interest rate expectations ECB’s Escriva: We still have restrictive policy France January business confidence…

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Goldman Sachs on Trump tariffs – “more benign than expected”, but some of it hawkish

Goldman Sachs on US politics: “President Trump’s Inauguration Day policy announcements on tariffs were more benign than expected” “For now … a lower priority than we would have expected” GS…

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A technical view of the major currency pairs going into the new trading week

EURUSD: USDJPY: GBPUSD: USDCHF: USDCAD: AUDUSD: NZDUSD: This article was written by Greg Michalowski at www.forexlive.com.

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Bank of America says US 10 year yield is unlikely to rise above 5.25%!

Economists at Bank of America forecast the yield on US 10 years to 4.75% this year, but concede it could rise higher: could get above 5% depending on the Federal…

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PBOC is expected to set the USD/CNY reference rate at 7.3138 – Reuters estimate

People’s Bank of China USD/CNY reference rate is due around 0115 GMT. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), China’s central bank, is responsible for setting the daily midpoint of the…

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Forexlive European FX news wrap: Trump mulls a national emergency declaration for tariffs

US MBA mortgage applications w.e. 3 January -3.7% vs -12.6% prior Trump mulls a national emergency declaration to allow for new tariff program – report Cable turns lower on the…

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Spain December preliminary CPI +2.8% vs +2.6% y/y expected

Prior +2.4% HICP +2.8% vs +2.6% y/y expected Prior +2.4% The concern for the ECB is that core annual inflation here is seen ticking higher to 2.6%, up from 2.4%…

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ForexLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap: USD/JPY pulls back from above 158.00

China’s MIIT predicts a 5.7% y/y growth in industrial output for the January to December China’s industrial profits decline four straight months, but at a slower rate Japan finance minister…

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Spain Q3 final GDP +0.8% vs +0.8% q/q prelim

Prior +0.8% GDP +3.3% vs +3.4% y/y prelim Prior +3.2% No change to the quarterly estimate as the Spanish economy remains one of the few bright spots in Europe, especially…

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ECB’s Vujcic says the Bank’s “direction is clear … further reduction of interest rates”

Boris Vujčić, Governor of the Croatian National Bank and European Central Bank Governing Council member spoke in an interview Saturday, confirming what we all know – more rate cuts to…

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