RTTN:Dollar Steady Ahead Of US Durable Goods Orders, Weekly Jobless Claims Data
The Commerce Department is scheduled to release its durable goods orders report for June at 8:30 am ET. Economists expect durable goods order growth of 1.5 percent month-over-month in June. Excluding transportation, orders may have risen 0.6 percent.
Around the same time, the Labor Department will release its jobless claims report for the week ended July 20th. Economists expect claims to have increased to 341,000 from 334,000 in the previous week.
The US dollar held steady against its major counterparts ahead of the data. As of 8:25 am ET, the greenback was trading at 1.53 against the pound, 99.78 against the yen, 0.9358 against the Swiss franc and 1.3212 against the euro.
