{"id":22766,"date":"2009-12-08T03:22:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T07:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=6794"},"modified":"2009-12-08T03:22:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T07:22:55","slug":"usd-and-crude-oil-lower-on-bernanke-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2009\/12\/08\/usd-and-crude-oil-lower-on-bernanke-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"USD and Crude Oil Lower on Bernanke Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-pics\/9.jpg\" width=\"120\"  alt=\"printprofile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The US Dollar fell today after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave comments concerning the slow recovery of the U.S. economy which may keep inflation low. This hints towards a continued Fed policy of lower interest rates for the foreseeable future and short-term pressure on the USD.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-6794\"><\/span>Crude Oil prices continued declining for the fourth consecutive trading session following Bernanke&#8217;s speech and estimations for lower inflation and a weak U.S. economy. The price of Crude ended the day down at $74.14 after an opening price of $75.60. This was a price drop of almost 2%.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>9:00 GMT \u2013 GBP Halifax Housing Price Index (HPI):<\/strong><br \/>\nThe leading indicator of the housing industry&#8217;s health shows the change in housing prices and can influence the movement of the Pound. The rate is expected to decline by 4%.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>9:30 GMT \u2013 GBP Manufacturing Production:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe number is associated with the previous month and is a large percentage of total industrial production. The release is considered to be a good indicator of England&#8217;s overall economic health.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>14:00 GMT \u2013 CAD Overnight Rate and Accompanying Rate Statement:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Bank of Canada will announce its decision on the overnight rate which is not expected to change, along with the release of the accompanying rate statement. The explanation may contain hints at the future direction of Canadian monetary policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The US Dollar fell today after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave comments concerning the slow recovery of the U.S. economy which may keep inflation low. This hints towards a continued Fed policy of lower interest rates for the foreseeable fut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}