Canadian GDP: the end of loonie’s consolidation?
Canada will announce its monthly GDP on July 31, at 15:30 MT time.
Greenback is backed by US data tonic
On Wednesday, the evergreen buck hoarded hefty revenues after sturdy American retail data put a Federal Reserve rate lift back on the agenda. Meanwhile, Asian equities grew because tensions in the Korean peninsula relived a bit.
The break in North Korean threat as well as counter-threat turned to be enough for South Korean equities KS11 to gain 0.5%, although they were still short of a record maximum hit the previous month.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific stocks tacked on 0.1%, Japan's Nikkei N225 was intact.
On Tuesday, the Dow had concluded with a 0.02% leap. The S&P 500 sank 0.05% and the Nasdaq went down 0.11%.
The US currency rallied to its highest value versus a basket of key currencies for three weeks and it was last keeping to 93.849.
The common currency sank to $1.1736, although it had gained firm support around $l.1686 overnight.
The British pound tumbled too after UK inflation numbers were below forecast, thus breaching major support levels against both the common currency and greenback. The pound last hit $1.2863, having lost 1.1% during the previous session.
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