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Q1 2016 Eurozone wage and labour costs data 17 June 2016 Q1 labour costs 1.7% vs 1.3% prior Alongside falling unemployment we're seeing wages and costs starting to creep up. Maybe the next ECB move will be to taper QE ;-) Q1 2016 Eurozone labour costs...
Reuters reporting SocGen have sent a letter to clients to warn about possible gaps in pricing and liquidity surrounding the UK referendum vote. After the SNB they've got good reason to be cautious over what is a huge event...
The main highlight today will be Canadian CPI data for the month of May, released later in today’s New York Session. Headline CPI m/m is expected to increase to 0.5% from a prior 0.3%, however headline CPI y/y is expected to decline to 1.6% from 1.7%. Core CPI is expected to increase to 0...
Italy April trade balance total now published 17 June 2016 prev revised down from €+5.365bln EU trade balance €+918m vs 1,19bln prev revised down from €+1.331bln...
Latest Eurozone current account data from the ECB 17 June 2016 prev revised down from €+27.3bln NSA €+34.0bln vs €+31.3bln prev revised down from €+32.3bln direct investment inflow €10.7bln vs +€12.6bln prev portfolio investment inflow €+118.1 bln vs +9.9bkn prev...
Yesterday's tragic murder of UK MP Jo Cox leaves many reverberations 17 June 2016 Let no one underestimate the impact of this truly awful event but let's not jump to any conclusions as to why it happened. Conspiracy theorists have no place in these discussions...
Two Important Notes About The Last Decline in Dow Jones Industrial 1- The Last decline in Dow Jones lead to a great change in VIX value. so we should worry from the current falling trend which is in the beginning...
BOJ Market Group meeting Minutes now published 17 June 2016 following the introduction of the negative interest rate policy, liquidity and functioning of the JGB market have largely declined sluggishness of trading in the market can be described as "contracted equilibrium" more and more financial...
Positive start for European equities on the official opening 17 June 2016 FTSE +0.7% DAX +0.7% CAC40 +0.6% FTMIB +0.7...
European equities showing gains ahead of the official opening 17 June 2016 DAX futures +0.9% CAC40 +1.1% FTSE +0.5% Bund futures down 39 at 165.06...
Positive session but not one-way traffic for Japanese equities 17 June 2016 +165.52 open 15631.79 high 15774.87 low 15582.94...
Forex performance table shows the strength or weakness of a currency, gold and silver against US dollar. Find information expressed in pips change and percentage change...
After opening higher the Nikkei has now fallen to post new session lows 17 June low 15582.26 a few moments ago currently 15,606.17 session still in positive territory +167.92, +1.09% USDJPY not faxed by the new lows and currently 104.24 after earlier AUDPY-led lows of 104.12...
USDJPY and other yen pairs have had another kick lower 17 June 2016 Eamonn reported on the move a short while ago and I'm now hearing the AUDJPY selling was a prime mover with an AUD 300m order going through in thin conditions. AUDJPY has fallen from 77.40 to 76.85 with AUDUSD down to 0...
Your economic data/event calendar for today 17 June Greetings one and all. Tragic news out of the UK to put a lot of things in perspective. We live in extremely fragile times. Our thoughts and condolences go out to the family and friends of Jo Cox...
FSA, MoF, BOJ officials are meeting to discuss financial mkts Asakawa remarks crossing on the screens: BOJ, MoF, FSA share view the volatility is rising in FX, financial markets (Masatsugu Asakawa is vice finance minister for international affairs) More...
USD/JPY and yen crosses are all a little higher in recent minutesw On the back of: Japan finance minister Aso Very concerned about one-sided, rapid and speculative moves seen in FX mkt Plans to hold meeting of FSA, MoF, BOJ officials to discuss financial mkts on Friday...
The latest on Asia-Pacific banks from Fitch Ratings Australian banks' capital positions have been strengthening The extent of improvement and the regulatory capital ratios themselves are understated relative to many international peers Due to a conservative implementation of the Basel capital fra...
Bank of America Merrill Lynch's monthly fund manager survey Its found cash allocations amongst the managers are now at a 15-year high, highest since November of 2001 At 5.7% (was 5...
New Zealand data ANZ Job advertisements for May: +0.2% m/m (prior was +1.8%, revised from1.7%) For the y/y, up 7.2% ANZ commentary...
