Forex Today: Pound volatility rises, dollar consolidates ahead of FOMC Minutes – by eren_fxstreet Currencies Majors Macroeconomics Fed BOE
will feature the Producer Price Index data for September. In the late American session, the Federal Reserve will release the minutes of its September meeting. Europen Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is scheduled to deliver a speech and market participants will keep a close eye on developments surrounding the BoE.
While speaking at an event in Washington, BoE Governor Andrew Bailey reminded pension fund managers that they have three days, until the end of the week, to finish rebalancing their positions when the emergency bond-buying programme concludes. During the Asian trading hours, however, the Financial Times reported that the BoE signalled bankers that it could extend the bond-buying programme. The 2-year UK gilt yield fell nearly 4% on Tuesday but it's already up 2% on Wednesday.
The UK's Office for National Statistics reported that the Gross Domestic Product contracted by 0.3% on a monthly basis in August following July's 0.1% expansion. In the same period, Industrial Production and Manufacturing Production declined by 1.8% and 1.6%, respectively. After having dropped toward 1.0900 earlier in the day,spiked above 1.1050 on BoE headlines but retreated to the 1.1000 area in the European morning.
Meanwhile, US stock index futures are up between 0.7% and 1.1% in the early European session, pointing to an improving market mood. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's latest Survey of Consumer of Expectations showed on Tuesday that consumers' one-year inflation expectation declined to a new 12-month low of 5.4% from 5.7% in August's survey.clings to modest daily gains above 0.9700 early Wednesday. Eurostat will release the August Industrial Production data later in the session.
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