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Your economic data/event calendar for today 18 Aug 2016
Greetings everyone
Any the wiser after the FOMC Minutes? Seems the Fed stuck between a rock and a hard place still, as are many CBs right now.

Our live blog is tracking market reaction after minutes from the July U.S. Federal Reserve meeting suggested a split view on when to increase rates.

A new post to the Bitcoin.org website indicates its contributors have reason to believe the website may be targeted by malicious actors.

Later today, at 2PM New York time, US Federal Reserve bankers will release minutes from their last meeting and traders may move some markets sharply in a knee-jerk reaction to what is contained in these minutes, but don’t let any irrational responses to Federal Reserve bankers steer your focus away from reality. I’ve been discussing the absurdity of planning an investment and wealth preservation strategy around Federal Reserve banker policy statements for a long time now.

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Five years after the housing recovery began, 5.9 million borrowers still owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth.

Forex news for Asia trading Thursday 18 August 2016
Another relatively quiet day for news and data in Asia today, but what we did get was significant and currency moves were at times quite sharp.