1. What does NFP (Non-Farm Payrolls) primarily measure?
Inflation The change in US employment, excluding farm and a few other worker categories GDP growth Interest rates directly
2. What does CPI measure?
Corporate profit The average change in prices consumers pay — the primary inflation gauge Currency exchange rates Stock market volatility
3. What is the FOMC responsible for?
Setting UK interest rates Setting US monetary policy, including interest rate decisions Regulating cryptocurrency exchanges Publishing GDP reports
4. Why does GDP tend to produce less immediate market volatility than NFP or CPI?
It's not watched by any traders It's a broader, less frequent, more backward-looking measure than monthly reports It's released every day It has no relationship to interest rates
5. How does gold typically react to falling real interest rates?
It usually falls, since gold pays no yield It tends to be supported/rise, since the opportunity cost of holding a non-yielding asset falls It has no reaction It always crashes