Yesterday Canadian dollar reached its monthly minimum levels after the macroeconomic statistics were released by Canada’s National Statistics Agency. September 2007 retails sales fell by 0.2 percents compared to previous month. USD/CAD traded at 0.9923 on Forex as the data was released.
Federal Reserve’s FOMC published its first meeting minutes to include the 3-year projections of the committee members regarding the GDP growth, consumer prices inflation and unemployment rate. While the average projection expectations didn’t differ greatly (except for the year 2008) from this year’s results, the uncertainty of the inflation projections spoke for itself - Fed is unsure of the impact the interest rates manipulations will have on the consumer prices growth.
As the Forex traders wait for today’s housing data release, EUR/USD reached its new historical maximum at 1.4778. With just a little trailing back it continues to hover around 1.4770 level ready to strike again to probable 1.4800 level.