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The Eurosystem's weekly financial statement for the week ending 1 December 2017 shows base money rising by EUR 68.7 billion and net lending to credit institutions up by EUR 9.4 billion. Securities purchase programmes continued at routine levels.
Growth in base money and central bank asset purchases reflects ongoing euro liquidity. It has little direct bearing on feed commodity supply or demand.
After 54 past report events, Euro (USD per EUR) moved a median +0.1% over 5 sessions (59% higher; middle half -0.4% to +0.8%), and +0.1% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.