I agree. Just concentrate on the CORE number. IF however the CORE is at par with consensus, then and only then do you look for the Headline number for direction.... As I warn, be carefull with lowered fuel price dragging this number down. So it may ...

CAD Retail Sales 12.30 GMT

Oct 23, 2006 Retail Sales Previous: 1.5% Consensus: 0.8% Actual: 1.0% Retail Sales Excluding Autos Previous: 0.7% Consensus: 0.3% Actual: 0.4% Reviewing the history, should the Retail Sales Excluding Autos result comes out: > 0.3%, SHORT USDCAD < ...

Historic Charts: CAD Retail Sales

Sep 21, 2006 Retail Sales Previous: -0.2% Consensus: 0.5% Actual: 1.5% Retail Sales Excluding Autos Previous: 0.1% Consensus: 0.3% Actual: 0.7%

Historic Charts: CAD Retail Sales

Aug 21, 2006 Retail Sales Previous: -0.6% Consensus: 0.2% Actual: -0.2% Retail Sales Excluding Autos Previous: -0.2% Consensus: 0.3% Actual: 0.1%

Historic Charts: CAD Retail Sales

Jul 21, 2006 Retail Sales Previous: 1.7% Consensus: 0.1% Actual: -0.6% Retail Sales Excluding Autos Previous: 1.9% Consensus: 0.4% Actual: -0.2%

Historic Charts: CAD Retail Sales

Jun 21, 2006 Retail Sales Previous: 1.5% Consensus: 0.4% Actual: 1.7% Retail Sales Excluding Autos Previous: 0.7% Consensus: 0.5% Actual: 1.9%

Historic Charts: CAD Retail Sales

May 19, 2006 Retail Sales Previous: -0.4% Consensus: 0.6% Actual: 1.5% Retail Sales Excluding Autos Previous: 0.3% Consensus: 0.7% Actual: 0.7%

Historic Charts: CAD Retail Sales

Apr 21, 2006 Retail Sales Previous: 1.4% Consensus: 0.1% Actual: -0.4% Retail Sales Excluding Autos Previous: 1.4% Consensus: 0.2% Actual: 0.3%

Historic Charts: CAD Retail Sales

Mar 21, 2006 Retail Sales Previous: 1.1% Consensus: 1% Actual: 1.4% Retail Sales Excluding Autos Previous: 0.4% Consensus: 1.1% Actual: 1.4%

Historic Charts: CAD Retail Sales

Feb 21, 2006 Retail Sales Previous: 1.1% Consensus: 0.1% Actual: 0.3% Retail Sales Excluding Autos Previous: 0.1% Consensus: 0.3% Actual: 0.4%

Historic Charts: CAD Retail Sales

Sep 27, 2006 Durable Goods Orders: -0.5% V 0.7%E Durables ex Transportation: -2.0% V 0.4%E

Historic Charts: US Durable Goods

LOL! You should know that the 1st day DONT produce any currency movements! IF it does (result already decided on the 1st day and leaked out into the public), why bother having a 2nd day? BTW. They do decide WHO among them get to vote on the ...

Fomc ?

Are we in Contrarian Trades? The trend is very USD short vs EUR, GBP, yet many are seeing a USD bull run soon. FXCMTR is suggesting a short for GBPUSD @ 1.8846, short EURUSD @ 1.2623. Long [email protected]..... I receive almost the same from a broker: ...

$ For The week of 10/23-With Some Trade Ideas

Yes. They will move seats around as they play Musical Chair to know who among the them will get to vote on the 2nd day.

Fomc ?

Oct 26, 2006 (17:45) Previous: -961M Estimate: -800M Actual: -587M

Historic Charts: NZ Trade Balance

Oct 24, 2006 (17:45) Previous: 1.5% Estimate: 0.8% Actual:0.7% CPI appears to lessen the pressure for NZ to raise Interest Rate. However, Food prices rose to 0.4% vs -0.2% expectation.

Historic Charts: NZ Quarterly CPI

Jul 16, 2006 (18:45) Previous: 0.6% Estimate: 1.2% Actual 1.5%

Historic Charts: NZ Quarterly CPI

Apr 18, 2006 (18:45) Previous: 0.7% Estimate: 0.7% Actual: 0.6%

Historic Charts: NZ Quarterly CPI

Oct 24, 2006 (21:30) Previous: 1.6% Estimate: 0.7% Actual: 0.9%

Historic Charts: AUD Quarterly CPI