The most important news events

[Dr Who]

To the very experienced currency traders here what are the most important news events that MUST be taken notice of?

Please feel free to elaborate and opine as much as you like.
Dr.

[cowpip]

Interest rate announcements are of course the most important news events, but any other news report that can directly impact interest rate views (economic growth reports, inflation reports, etc) are also very important to watch (first-tier releases). I would recommend reading the following link, which enumerates the most market moving news events of 2006. It will probably answer most of your questions concerning this.

http://freeforexebooks.com/Fundament...rketMoving.pdf

[Kiwi]

I used to use these. The german site gives events a ranking.

Forexnews.com
Translated version of http://www.derivatecheck.de/termine/default.asp

[Dr Who]

Thankyou guys for your responses.

[RhodyTrader]

The data release most likely to have a big impact on the markets in any given cycle is the monthly US Payroll report. Next in line for forex is probably the trade balance figures.

[torero]

This week seems to be everyone wants to report everything that can be and should be measured and was measured. In short, for non-news traders, this week was a small vacation since no trend (swing and higher) was sight. Prices were all over the place and stops were gunned every which they were sitting at.

Take a look at the economic calendar and you'll see it's packed with dates and times.