US: ISM Nonmanufacturing Index to Rise Only Marginally - TDS Millan Mulraine, Deputy Head US Macro Strategy at TDS, suggests that the US economic growth momentum has slowed, and while the headwinds to the manufacturing sector appear to have abated the fallout in the service sector should continue...
The dollar edged lower on Monday on contradictory views of prospects for an increase in U.S. interest rates, while oil prices stayed under pressure on skepticism producers would be able to freeze output to stem a global glut. A usually dovish U.S...
Can WTI End Its Biggest Consecutive Daily Decline Since 2009? North American benchmark, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is up today and trying to end its biggest consecutive daily decline since 2009...
UK Service Sector Improves, but Brexit Fears Weighs on the Outlook - ING James Knightley, Research Analyst at ING, notes that the UK’s service sector purchasing managers’ index has risen a fraction more than expected to stand at 53.7 in March versus 52.7 in February (consensus was 53.5...
For Kiwi, Focus Is on Dairy Auctions Today New Zealand Dollar, riding on weaker Dollar and recent improved sentiments towards commodities broken above a key resistance around 0.69 area. However that break has so far been short lived as Dollar has snapped back its loss broad based...
Brent Oil Stays Near One-Month Low on Falling US Demand Brent prices trade at lowest since March 4 as investors worry about fading prospects of OPEC and non-OPEC output freeze and fresh signs of falling US demand. At the time of writing, Brent oil was trading 10 cents or 0...
Oil in Global Economy Series: Saudi Arabia Bleeds Reserve Amid Lower Oil Saudi Arabia’s pains are visibly on the rise as the economy facing threats of downgrades, if it fails to check on its ballooning fiscal deficit, which is projected to be 15-16% of GDP this year...
European Stocks Drop, Dax down More Than 2% Bears are making their presence felt today across European bourses as slide in oil prices and Fed rate hike talk rattled bulls. At the time of writing, Stoxx 50 index was down 1.8%. Germany’s DAX was down 2.23%, followed by a 1...
Market Movers for The Day – Danske Bank Research Team at Danske Bank, suggests that in the US, the most important release today is the ISM non-manufacturing index for March...
Fed’s Evans: Markets Pricing of Rate Hikes More Pessimistic Than Fed More comments hitting the wires from Chicago Fed President Evans, as he speaks in Hong Kong: Needs to be proactive and aggressive to get up to FED inflation targets Financial markets pricing of U.S...
Release of a Slew of Services PMIs Today - Rabobank Stefan Koopman, Market Economist at Rabobank, suggests that this morning will see the release of a slew of services PMIs. Key Quotes “At 9:15 CET, Spain will do the kick-off, then followed by Italy, France (final) and Germany (final...
FXWIREPRO: NZ IRS Yields Indicate RBNZ to Go Below Existing OCR NZD continues to trade well – in trade-weighted terms, it is at a 6m high. RBNZ has been puzzling in recent monetary policies...
CAD: Trade Deficit Expected to Widen - TDS David Tulk, Head of Global Macro Strategy at TDS, suggests that the Canada's trade deficit is expected to widen in February to $1.0 billion as a pullback in exports is expected to outpace a weaker month for imports. Key Quotes “A forecasted 1...
CPI is Expected to Rise Modestly in 2016 – China’s NDRC China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) noted in its latest report that the Chinese price pressures are likely to rise this year, China Securities Journal reports...
Japanese Long-Term Bonds fall on Strong Labour Cash Earnings Report The Japanese long-term bonds slumped on Tuesday after strong labor cash earnings report, which reduces the probability of further BOJ easing in the near term...
NZD/USD Boosted by US Dollar Weakness – Westpac Imre Speizer, Research Analyst at Westpac, notes that the NZD/USD broke above its six-month old trading range recently, following a dovish speech by Fed Chair Yellen. Key Quotes “The break above 0.6900 technically signals a move to at least 0...
US: ISM Non-Manufacturing Index Losing Streak to End - RBS Brian Daingerfield, FX Trading Strategist at RBS, suggests that today the ISM non-manufacturing index is released for March in the US...
Japan: Demand for Foreign Assets Near Record Levels – Westpac Robert Rennie, Research Analyst at Westpac, suggests that historically, we have tended to see Japanese demand for foreign assets soften into financial year end. Key Quotes “However, this end of year looks to be an exception...
Fed’s Evans: Two Rate Hikes This Year will be "Appropriate" Speaking in Hong Kong, Chicago Fed President Evans commented on the Fed’s interest rates outlook. Key Quotes: Too early to tell if inflation rebound is sustained Fed rate path will depend on economic data...
