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Consensus
2 guides in Finabase Learn
- How markets react to economic data: surprises, regimes, revisions Why stocks, bonds and the dollar move on the gap between data and forecasts, why good news can be bad news, and how revisions and positioning change the reaction.
- The economic calendar: when US data come out and how to read them When the jobs report, CPI, GDP, retail sales and FOMC decisions are released, who publishes them, and how to read the consensus, actual and prior columns.
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