Friday, November 13, 2009

Mid-Day Report: Dollar Remains Pressured ahead of FOMC



Dollar weaken sharply across the board today as Gold makes another record high of 1096 and is marching to 1100 level. Crude oil also follows by breaking 80 level too whole stocks rebounds strongly in general. ADP report showed the job market in private sector contracted -203k in October, slightly higher than expectation of -187k. Nevertheless, prior months' data was revised up from -254k to -227k. Challenger report also showed strong improvement of -50.7% fall in planned layoffs in October. Nevertheless, ISM non-manufacturing index missed expectation and fell slightly to 50.6 in October. Main focus now turns to FOMC rate decision and statement.

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