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US retail sales and Empire state manfacturing beat expectation, reactions muted

A batch of economic data is released from the US

  • Headline retail sales rose 0.8% in October, above expectation of 0.5% mom
  • Ex-auto sales rose 0.7%, above expectation of 0.5 mom
  • Import price index rose 0.5% mom in October, much higher than expectation of 0.1% mom.
  • Empire State Manufacturing index rose to 23.3 in November, up from 21.1 and beat expectation of 19.3.
  • Philly Fed Business outlook dropped to 12.9, down from 22.2, below expectation of 20.7.
  • Initial jobless claims rose 2k to 216k in the week ended November 10
  • Continuing claims rose 46k to to 1.676M in the week ended November 3.

Dollar shows little reaction to the data as focus is not in the UK, not the US.

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