QUOTE(billytong @ Sep 4 2008, 08:07 PM)
U have to see how the Fed lie about the Job numbers. They are too good at telling lies. But if they tell the truth, I am not surprise we will see a red NFP. Yes USD does smells good, but a country that lost more jobs than the rest of the world? Still think Fall totally to USD? No way. I am Short EU with caution.
Previous few months u hear about more bank employees layoff, more big insitution layoff yet can dare to print green NFP and then put unemployment % higher. Mix Data. Higher unemployment with better NFP? come on which one is true?
The more i think about it, the more i think that US FEDs going to cut IR first. Yet, you see euro and pounds rapidly declining. Why? That's because UK and Euro Zone are now experiencing the effects of US subprime crisis. US first got into the mess, and by right, US should get out of the mess sooner than the rest of the world. Hence, the dollar rallies to that concept.
We all know the data is all manipulated. Headline inflation few months ago was too low to be believable even. But the ADP numbers and jobless claims already informed the market that the today's NFP won't look good at all. Upon released, the EU and GBP should spike but will later retreat to new lows.
Why i say so ? Simple, with all the bullish news for oil (speculation that OPEC is cutting supply soon), and yet oil prices are still trying to climb up to positive territory. All the OECD and emerging markets PMI had been disappointing and it comes down to supply and demand, ECONOMICS 101. The oil and commodities traders know this very well and are not willing to push oil any higher.
The forex speculators know this very well, they are shorting EU and GBP after relief rallies.
Added on September 5, 2008, 11:18 amQUOTE(kelvin_tan @ Sep 4 2008, 08:12 PM)
@adam
non farm payrolls? is that news in FF ? coz i'm only seeing non farm employment change.. both of it is the same ??
Yes, same.
This post has been edited by AdamG1981: Sep 5 2008, 11:19 AM