German Bunds Rally After ECB Qe Boost Kicks In The German 10-year bund prices rallied for 4 consecutive weeks on Monday after the European Central Bank’s expanded bond buying programme kicked in on Friday...
Russian Bonds Slump on Tracking Weak Oil Prices The Russian bonds declined, pushing the yield on 10-year bonds up 3 bps to 9.19 pct, tracking weak crude oil prices on Monday. Moreover, Brent crude oil, a global benchmark for Russia's main export, was down 0.34 pct at $38.55 a barrel...
Poor Australia Retail Sales Data Fuels Rba Rate Cut Bets Australian retail sales data disappointed for the third consecutive month and momentum has clearly slowed in the past three months. Data released earlier today showed Australia's Feb retail sales came at 0.0% m/m missing expectations for 0...
Euro Zone Bond Rally Continues With ECB in the Market From last Friday onwards, European Central Bank (ECB) is in the bond market with additional firepower and on average, from now on it will be purchasing almost €4 billion worth of bonds, every trading day...
It Seems Oil Has Bottomed Out in the Mid-$20.00s – Rabobank According to Strategist at Rabobank Christian Lawrence, the barrel of crude oil could have bottomed in recent lows in the mid-$20.00s...
UK: Manufacturing PMI Disappoints - ING James Smith, Economist at ING, suggests that heightened concerns about global growth continue to weigh on UK manufacturers, although uncertainty surrounding the EU referendum may be starting to play a role...
Falling oil prices, China growth fears, submerging markets, Brexit and Italian banks. All of those risks have one thing in common: They have not derailed the US economy. Despite concerns about a recession, it continues to grow at a steady pace...
European Stocks Drop as Oil Weighs Stock markets across Europe fell in early trading on the back of nervous Asian equities and drop in oil prices. At the time of writing, Stoxx 50 index was trading marginally lower. Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC were down 0.05% and 0.10% respectively...
The most important release from this week’s Forex News Events calendar is FOMC Meeting Minutes that taking place on Wednesday at 7.00pm GMT. We also have UK Services PMI and New Zealand GDT Price Index on Tuesday. Full list of Forex news trading events taking place this week: Monday 4th...
UK: Sterling Storms and Fat Tails – Deutsche Bank Research Team at Deutsche Bank, suggests that with the UK’s referendum on EU membership approaching on the 23rd June, short-end GBP vol has risen dramatically...
UK Construction PMI Preview: What to Expect of GBP/USD? UK construction PMI for March is due for release today. The report is the least important compared to UK manufacturing PMI and services PMI report. Market expects UK construction PMI to print at 54...
USD Rally Over? – Danske Bank Senior Analyst at Danske Bank Sverre Holbek hinted at the fact that the USD upside could be nearly over. Key Quotes “The USD was remarkably stable despite the string of better-than-expected US data on Friday”...
Oil Drops on Falling Prospect of Output Freeze Production cut was never a possibility according to markets, but even a production freeze strategy appears a distant dream now owing to which both oil benchmarks dropped on Friday and extended losses today...
EUR/USD in Red, Stabilizes Below 1.1400 The single currency has started the week on an offered fashion vs. the greenback, prompting EUR/USD to give away part of last week’s strong advance...
Fed: Taking a Cautious Approach - ANZ Research Team at ANZ, suggests that the Fed is taking a cautious approach to monetary policy as the global macro and financial environment poses ongoing risks to the US economy...
Eurozone: Unemployment and Investor Confidence Data in Focus – Danske Bank Research Team at Danske Bank, suggests that in the euro area, Sentix investor confidence for April is due for release at 10:30 CET...
There is no trade call for the session. The London session is relatively quiet, however we will see Employment figures from Spain and Construction PMI from the UK. Currency Update USD: Employment figures for March were solid with 215,000 jobs added, a rise of 0...
Asian Shares Firm After Solid U.S. Jobs Data, Dollar Soft Asian share prices held firm on Monday after solid U.S. payroll data underpinned investor risk sentiment while dovish comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen the previous week kept the U.S. dollar in check...
AUD: Not a Rate Cut Trigger - ANZ Research Team at ANZ, suggests that the RBA board meeting tomorrow will be the main focus this week. Key Quotes “We (and the market) are expecting rates to remain on hold at 2% as global and domestic economic conditions have recently been tracking reasonably well...
