If you’ve had any experience in the foreign currency market or the forex market, I am sure you would have heard of the term pip. If however you are new to the forex market the term pip will probably have you thinking of those little seeds found in fruit. In terms of forex a pip [...]

The term Forex is short for Foreign Exchange. The Forex market is most widely traded market in the world. The figure most often cited as the trading volume for the Forex market is $1.9 trillion US dollars daily. If you wish to read more about where this figure came from read Making up the numbers.
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The figure of $1.9 trillion US dollars is often cited as the daily trading volume of the Forex market. What is often not presented is where this actual figure comes from. This figure originates from The Bank for international Settlement (BIS) Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity. I know it [...]

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measures the number of new orders placed for durable and non durable goods placed with domestic manufactures. This report can be downloaded from the US Census Bureau website.