SLOW MARKET
A slow market can mean one of two things. First is when the market is trading at very low volumes or low volatility. This means that there is not much going on in the market as there are no risk events, no stimulus and mo deterrent to move the market in a particular direction. Second, it is a market where the trades are not done in the fastest way possible. This means that there are delays in the transactions. Seconds are already considered as delays in some markets especially if its dominantly electronic in nature.
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Key Rate
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Alternative Order
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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance – CFDA
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| Time | Country | Indices | Period |
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| 04:00 | Expected Annual Inflation 2y from now | 4 quarter | |
| 07:00 | Economy Watchers Survey | Oct | |
| 10:30 | New Yuan Loans | Oct | |
| 01:30 | Westpac Consumer Sentiment | Nov | |
| 01:50 | M2 Money Supply + CD | Oct | |
| 02:30 | NAB Business Confidence | Oct | |
| 08:00 | Prelim Machine Tool Orders | Oct | |
| 09:00 | CPI | Oct | |
| 09:00 | Harmonized CPI | Oct |
