Eurozone Current A/c Surplus Falls For Second Month Eurozone's current account surplus decreased for a second straight month in January, data from the European Central Bank showed Monday. The seasonally-and-working-day adjusted current account surplus dropped to EUR 25.4 billion from EUR 28...
Lithuania Industrial Production Grows In February Lithuania's industrial production climbed notably in February from a year ago, figures from Statistics Lithuania showed Monday. Industrial production rose a working-day-adjusted 6.3 percent year-over-year in February...
Canadian Dollar, Oil Remain Near Highs for the Year The Canadian dollar and oil prices slipped in trading Friday, but remained near a three-month high. The loonie, which rose above 77 cents Thursday, was down one third of a cent to 76.78 cents US in late afternoon...
Brent Oil Drops to 5-DMA and Recovers Brent prices fell to 5-DMA level of $40.53/barrel, before trimming losses to trade around $40.80 levels on reports china’s oil imports rose to a fresh high...
Hong Kong Inflation At 8-month High Hong Kong annual inflation unexpectedly accelerated in February for a third consecutive month to its highest level in eight months, figures from the Census and Statistics Department showed Monday. The consumer price index rose 3...
Taiwan Feb Export Orders Fall Less Than Forecast Taiwan's export orders decreased at a slower-than-expected pace in February, data from the Ministry of Economic Affairs showed Monday. Export orders dipped 7.4 percent year-over-year in February, below economists' expectations for a 10...
Denmark Consumer Confidence Eases At 5-Month Low Denmark's consumer confidence weakened for a third straight month in March to its lowest level in five months, survey data from Statistics Denmark revealed Monday. The consumer confidence index fell to 3.6 from 4 in February...
U.S. Dollar Rises Against Majors The U.S. dollar strengthened against the other major currencies in the early European session on Monday. The U.S. dollar rose to 4-day highs of 1.1253 against the euro and 1.4392 against the pound, from early lows of 1.1285 and 1.4467, respectively...
Turkey Consumer Confidence Improves In March Turkey's consumer confidence rose in March after easing sharply in the previous three months, survey data from the statistical office Turkstat showed Monday. The consumer confidence index climbed to 67 from 66.6 in February. After hitting a peak of 77...
Dutch House Prices Rise Further Dutch house prices continued to increase in February, though at a slower pace than in the previous month, figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics showed Monday. Price index of existing houses climbed 3.8 percent year-over-year in February, following a 4...
ECB’s Villeroy - Negative Rates Effective but Have Limits ECB governing council member Francois Villeroy de Galhau assured markets today the bank is ready to act with right instruments to meet the inflation target, but maintained there is a limit to how low negative rates can go...
GBP/USD Dips Below 1.44 on Brexit Fears GBP/USD dipped below 1.44 handle as political developments in the UK over the weekend put Tory unity on austerity at risk and heightened bears of Brexit...
There is no trade call for the session. We expect trading to be light until UK CPI tomorrow. As always to kick-start the week I suggest reading my currency update below...
Stronger Dollar is Out of the Question for Now - SocGen Kit Juckes, Research Analyst at Societe Generale, suggests that the term ‘Currency Wars’ was used by Brazil’s erstwhile Finance Minister, Guido Mantega, in September 2010 in response to moves by some (Asian) countries to resist upward pressu...
Dovish Central Banks Support Global Financial Markets – Danske Bank Research Team at Danske Bank, suggests that the world’s major economies have held central bank meetings during March and across the central banks there has been a convergence in sending a common message that it is appropriate to...
EUR/GBP in Highs Above 0.7800 The now softer tone around the sterling is allowing EUR/GBP to clinch session highs in the 0.7810/15 band. EUR/GBP attention to risk trends The cross is looking to recover part of last week’s drop to the mid-0...
Fed: Back to Old Habits? - ANZ Research Team at ANZ, suggests that with the benefit of a couple more days and the fact that markets have settled somewhat, it is little easier now to reflect on the Fed’s decision and surprise dovishness last week...
Gold drops below hourly 100-MA Gold prices failed to sustain above 10-DMA and fell below hourly 100-MA level of 1247.84 levels despite drop in the US treasury yields. Drops to $1240 Prices printed a session low of $1240/Oz in early Europe and now continue to trade around $1242 levels...
US: Existing Home Sales and Fed’s Locker Speech in Focus - TDS Research Team at TDS, suggests that the US economic calendar is quite thin...
