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Australia Westpac Consumer Confidence: -1.3% (January) vs previous 2.7%

Atlanta Federal Reserve (Fed) President Raphael Bostic said on the weekend that inflation could "see-saw" if policymakers cut interest rates too soon, warning that inflation's descent towards the central bank's 2% goal was likely to slow in the months ahead, per the Financial Times.

<p>Westpac Consumer Confidence / Melbourne Institute monthly index. </p><ul><li>Down 1.3% on the month to 81.0</li></ul><p>Its been below 100, ie pessimists outnumbering optimists, since February 2022.</p><p>WPAC comment:</p><ul><li>The latest January read is in the bottom 7% o

<p>The news of the attack, strikes near US interests in Iraq are a substantial escalation:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.forexlive.com/news/reports-iran-fired-a-ballistic-missile-which-struck-near-the-us-consulate-in-erbil-iraq-20240115/" target="_self">Reports Iran fired a ballistic missile which

<p>Via a Bloomberg (gated) survey of analyst expectations for the European Central Bank's depo rate this year. </p><ul><li>economists surveyed see a 25bp rate cut in June, September, October and December</li><li> bringing the deposit rate to 3%</li><li>the December 2023 survey had 3 rate cuts exp

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Movements in the dollar in late December and early January have traced a pattern that has been repeated many times. This tendency pertains to the dollar’s value against Europe’s most influential currency, which was the Deutsche mark from when the dollar first floated in 1973 through 1998 and thereafter has been in the relationship again