Asian Markets Turn Positive on Oil Gains, Gold Hovers Around $1252 All the major Asian indices are trading on a positive note on Wednesday and erases previous losses. The core reason behind the upward movement is the sharp rise in oil prices, which improves global sentiment...
Gold Under Pressure in Asia on Improved Risk Sentiment Gold extended its overnight retreat in the Asian session, and now consolidates near the lower band of today’s daily range as risk-on trades pick up pace. Gold moves-off fresh four-week tops Currently, gold trades 0.11% lower at 1252...
Asian Stocks Through the Roof, Oil Rally, China Trade Underpin The stocks on the Asian bourses joined the global risk-on rally this Wednesday, taking the positive lead from strong gains seen in the black gold yesterday, which buoyed the sentiment around the energy and resource stocks...
Negative interest rates, which central banks in several countries have implemented as a way to spur economic growth, is a radical move. In the last of a three-part series, ‘Negative Thinking,’ commentator Satyajit Das examines this policy and its risks...
The yen hit a 17-month high against the dollar on Monday in the currency market's latest warning sign to equity investors. The strength of the Japanese yen this year has been a bit of a surprise for many investors...
WTI Firmer, Approaches $41.00 The barrel of West Texas Intermediate is prolonging its weekly advance today, now flirting with daily highs in the vicinity of the $41.00 mark...
FXWIREPRO: Yen Eyes on Gains Again As Boj's Kuroda Hints Stimulus - Hedging Positions in Line With Risk Reversals As we could see the change in delta risk reversal numbers into negative territory, that signals underlying pair would resume its bearish travel in next 1 weeks time...
USD/JPY Ignored Uptick in US Import Price Index Bid tone around USD failed to strengthen despite rise in the US import price index, leaving USD/JPY largely unaffected around 108.30...
The U.S. dollar index fell 9 out of the last 11 trading sessions, already down 4.8% this year and back to the level seen last October. The dollar has weakened against all its major trading partners from the Japanese yen to the Canadian dollar...
Germany: War of Words with ECB - ING Carsten Brzeski, Chief Economist at ING, suggests that the German criticism on the ECB’s monetary policy throughout the crisis is not new but in recent days, however, it has entered a new stage...
US Session Includes Fed Speak and Import Prices Data - BBH Research Team at BBH, suggests that the US session features import prices, where the risk is on the upside after a 0.3% decline in February. Key Quotes “Three regional Fed presidents speak (Harker, Williams, and Lacker...
UK: Extension of Sterling's Recovery - BBH Research Team at BBH, suggests that the highlight in the foreign exchange market today is the extension of sterling's recovery...
CAD: BoC Preview/Made in the US - ING Viraj Patel, Foreign Exchange Strategist at ING, suggests that the tighter financial conditions will be a concern for BoC’s governor Poloz...
BoC in Neutral Mode at April Meet, Focus Likely to be on the Monetary Policy Report The Bank of Canada (BoC) holds its next policy meeting on Wednesday, 13th April. While no change in policy is expected, the central bank's new growth forecasts will be watched...
ECB’s Weidmann – Monetary Policy Stance Appropriate at the Moment European Central Bank (ECB) governing council member and Germany’s Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann told the FT in an interview last Thursday called bank’s policy stance as “appropriate”...
UK Headline CPI Rose 0.5% y/y to March - TDS Research Team at TDS, notes that the UK headline CPI rose 0.5% y/y to March, up from 0.3% in Feb, while core prices also rose faster than expected, rising from 1.2% to 1.5...
Japan Continues to Highlight Unease Over One Sided Yen Moves - MUFG Lee Hardman, Currency Analyst at MUFG, notes that the yen has weakened modestly in the Asian trading session undermined in part by further verbal intervention from Japanese officials and an improvement in global investor risk sen...
UK: Domestic Political Developments Increase Brexit Risk - MUFG Lee Hardman, Currency Analyst at MUFG, suggests that the Pound weakness remains relentless early this year ahead of the EU referendum...
IMF and US Data at The Centre Stage - Rabobank Piotr Matys, EM FX Strategist at Rabobank, suggests that the International Monetary Fund will publish its latest World Economic Outlook. Christine Lagarde has already hinted that the IMF may revise lower its economic forecasts...
