Companies may have ramped down to enhance their balance sheets for the close of the calendar year, damaging core durable goods numbers. New home sales might be adequate as builders withdrew tones of buying incentives but with individuals spending at the mall, I still do not think they busied themselves with buying homes. With any luck the numbers will at best be luekwarm and the market will throw some support behind the GBP to push it above 1.97, and push the EUR up to 1.30 within the dollar.