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Hello there, forex friends! If you haven’t been paying attention to Brexit-related events lately, then here are some of the more important things that you need to know about...

Bloomberg with the headline 1 July 2016 Peoples Bank of China have emailed Bloomberg to say their report of intervention yesterday was untrue Yesterday the PBOC were also somewhat scathing about the media generally and in the wake of talk of them wanting USDCNH up to 6.80 by year end...

Australia June commodity index report 1 July 2016 prev revised up from -10.0% commodity index AUD 89.7 VS 91.1 prev revised up from 90.3 Commodity Prices measures the change in the selling price of exported commodities. The commodity sector accounts for over half of Australia's export income...

The soggy pound is on the back foot again in early trading 1 July Carney's cut/easing comments are still reverberating but given the fact that he and others on the MPC have highlighted the downside risk/ potential need for potential cuts/easing over the past year, albeit saying next moves were ex...

BOJ May core CPI ex- energy, fresh foods 1 July 2016 +0.9% prev The Bank of Japan's own calculation.Measures the change in the price of goods and services purchased by consumers, excluding food and energy. The BOJ usually pays more attention to the core inflation data...

Your economic data/event calendar for today 1 July 2016 Greetings everyone and welcome to a new month. We've had a lively 24 hours as anticipated, with the pound rightly soggy still, and now we must look ahead and wade our way through the ever increasing mess...

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This is the private survey manufacturing PMI. It's a different survey, different firms surveyed than in the official survey we got earlier. Tending to be smaller firms than those in the official survey. Caixin Manufacturing PMI 48.6 expected 49.2, prior 49...

The big risk is a bunch of politicians will win I guess. OK ... lets get on with it. Expectations are that the current government will win the election. But its not as if it'll be a landslide and the Opposition is in with a chance...

The Bank of Japan wants to hear your problems! Bloomberg report on enhanced communication activities at the bank: The BOJ has added its own surveys of investors and primary dealers since last year, on top of separate Ministry of Finance panel discussions with traders and economists...

The Bank of Japan's Tankan Survey. Its a survey of manufacturing and service companies designed to assess business conditions in Japan. The BOJ Tankan is conducted quarterly...

Japanese inflation data, National for May and Tokyo for June National CPI -0.4% y/y, expected is -0.5%, prior was -0.3% National CPI y/y excluding Fresh Food, -0.4% expected is -0.4%, prior was -0.3...

US energy secretary says agreed with Saudi energy minister that oil market still has more supply than demand (US energy secretary speaks after meeting with Saudi energy minister in Beijing) Says: Saudi energy minister sees oil market in balance towards the end of 2016 He expects oil market to be...

Australian Industry Group (AiG) Performance of Manufacturing Index for June comes in at 51.8 prior 51...

1.3500 was nice. 1.3219-22 eyed below The GBPUSD tumbled lower on the back of the BOE Carney comments and in the process solidified the 1.3500 level as a key line in the sand. The level was the low price going back to January 2009. The high price's today stalled at 1...

Dovish BOE talk adds to gains The S&P 500 is up 22 points to 2092 after briefly trading in negative territory at the start of the day. The idea isn't that global growth will be any better. It's that central banks will never hike rates and will do whatever it takes to achieve 1-2% growth...

Apparently on social media Michael Steen the ECB press officer has apparently scotched the story. The euro's bounced but you know the saying, nothings official until it's been officially denied...

Here's some quick thoughts on what the BOE may choose to use Firstly, I'm not pulling a rate cut off the table but I think it's a low probability, just from assessing Carney's comments and tone...