JPY: Time for BoJ intervention? – ING Research Team at ING, suggests that the bar for unilateral intervention remains high as far as JPY is concerned...
Time to Pick a Top in the Australian Dollar? - BBH Research Team at BBH, suggests looking for a top in the Australian dollar. Key Quotes “The low for the year was set in mid-January (~$0.6830), before the other markets turned. The MSCI emerging market equity index bottomed on January 21...
Japan's Inada: Now is Not the Time for Forex Intervention Chair of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Japan, Tomomi Inada, said now is not the time for forex intervention...
NZD/USD Recovery Remains Confined Below 0.6800 The overnight recovery in the NZD/USD pair lost steam just shy of 0.68 barrier, and the prices drifted slightly lower thereon, as bull remain depressed by the selling in the Asian markets...
Goldman Sachs: WTI to Average $35 a Barrel in Q2 In its latest report, Goldman Sachs noted that WTI oil at $ 35 is ideal to make investments in the US explorers’ stocks. Key Headlines: Oil at $35 a barrel (WTI) is right to make shares of U.S...
Oil Rebounds in Asia on Short-Covering, Brent Flirts with $ 40 Oil benchmarks on both sides of Atlantic resumed its upside momentum in the Asian trades this Friday, reversing a temporary slide witnessed yesterday...
Asian Stocks Track Wall Street Lower, 3rd Weekly Decline Eyed The Asian equity markets slipped on the final trading day of this week, and remains poised to book third weekly drop, as sentiment soured following heavy losses seen on Wall Street overnight...
ECB Minutes: Considered Sharper Rate Cut in March European Central Bank (ECB) March policy account/minutes released today showed governing council considered a much sharper rate cut in March, but feared reaching a zero lower bound...
Should the Fed Care about Britain? – Westpac Sean Callow, Research Analyst at Westpac, suggests that this week JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon predicted that increased volatility is here to stay...
Oil Struggles to Hold on to Gains in Volatile Trade Oil prices at both the sides of the Atlantic advanced, but struggle to keep the momentum going as investors consider the possibility of a failure of joint OPEC and non-OPEC output freeze...
GBP to Remain Better Offered - FXStreet Ross Burland, Analyst at FXStreet, suggests that as we approach the 23rd June, the pound will undoubtedly remain better offered...
AUD Rally: It’s Complicated – Westpac Sean Callow, Research Analyst at Westpac, suggests that the optimism over AUD has cooled somewhat...
US Equity Futures Drop Ahead of Yellen Speech Major stock futures in the US are trading on a softer note ahead of the weekly jobless claims data release and Fed chief Yellen’s speech. At the time of writing, Dow futures were down 65 points or 0.37%. S&P futures and Nasdaq futures were down 0...
US: Expect a Single Fed Hike this Year - SocGen Kit Juckes, Research Analyst at Societe Generale, suggests that the FOMC Minutes themselves don’t tell us much we didn’t already know...
Sterling/Dollar 3 Month IV Crosses Above 16% Three month volatility in Sterling, which now includes the referendum date has crossed previous high around 15.2% and crossed above 16% for first time in six years...
Global Central Banks Slowed Gold Purchases in February - WGC The latest data from the World Gold Council (WGC) showed that the global central banks, barring the Chinese and Russian, slowed their gold purchases in February...
SGD: MAS Preview, No Change but Market Under-Prices Easing Risk - ANZ Khoon Goh, Senior FX Strategist at ANZ Research, expects MAS to maintain their current policy settings at the April review...
Doves Flying High for FOMC – Investec Research Team at Investec, suggests that the minutes showed the FOMC to be split in their views, with the doves (led by Chair Yellen) winning out...
US: No Consensus from Within - ING James Smith, Economist at ING, suggests that the latest Fed minutes show that a range of views persist within the FOMC, which suggests little prospect of a near-term rate hike...
