Its tough living here in the future sometimes And ... the calendar is sparse, with two speakers to at least weigh in. Oh ... there are 2 Brexit polls due at 2100GMT - they usually hit a little early, so be ready, coming up in the next 30 minutes or so...
One idea has sustained 'remain' optimism From the announcement of the Brexit referendum, I've been saying the same thing: Buy the Brexit dip because voters almost always get election day jitters and vote for the status quo. That's been a great trade Thursday...
More jitters beginning to circulate Two polls released today have shown the 'leave' side in front (Opinium and TNS). They show varying degrees of momentum...
Results of the latest poll from TNS Omnibus The news poll shows 16% undecided or say they won't vote. The poll asked 2320 adults and was conducted June 16-22. The prior TSN poll was June 13 and showed leave at 47% to 40% for remain. Before that was 43-41% for leave on May 23...
Credit Agricole on potential moves in USD and GBP The greenback's short-term outlook will be driven by global risk sentiment rather than monetary policy expectations. This is especially true as the USD was in demand for most of the last few weeks on the back of rising safe haven demand...
Later in today’s New York session we will see the release of Canadian Retail Sales data for the month of April, as well as comments from Fed Chair Yellen who will be testifying before the House Financial Services Committee, and the weekly release of Crude Oil Inventories...
EU's head of Greek mission Costello speaking in Athens 22 June 2016 IMF mission chief Velculescu also on the rostrum: Greek fiscal targets too ambitious NPL reforms not ambitious enough Greece needs substantial debt relief...
Switzerland ZEW survey expectations now published 22 June 2016 current conditions 6.2 vs 0.0 prev The Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) Economic Expectations Index rates the relative six-month economic outlook for Switzerland...
Russian president speaking in lower house of parliament 22 June 2016 Russia must boost its combat readiness at a time when NATO is expanding and moving its infrastructure towards Russia's borders "NATO is strengthening its aggressive rhetoric and its aggressive actions near our borders...
With the Brexit referendum result looming which currencies may move the most against the pound? 22 June 2016. There's been lots of justifiable/considered talk recently, as well as hype, about the impact of the result impacting on the pound in serious fashion...
The UK Post Office is reporting a surge to sell the pound 22 June post office branch and online currency sales up 49% yy on Tuesday and up 381% online +74% yy since last week-end It's cash and therefore not so significant volume-wise but it's also a sentiment indicator toward Leave, or at least e...
Fedspeak, existing home sales and Eurozone consumer confidence on the schedule Canadian consumers have shrugged of the commodity bust so far and that's expected to be the case once again in April with retail sales expected to rise 0.8% (+0.7% ex-autos...
April 2016 Canadian retail sales report 22 June 2016 Prior -1.0%. Revised to -0.8% Ex-autos 1.3% vs 0.6% exp m/m. Prior -0.3%. Revised to -0.1% Sales excluding autos helps the CAD gain from 1.2775 to 1.2744. Higher gasoline prices did most of the lifting. Headline sales were up 4...
To go with all the other daily Brexit warnings from Europe ;-) France's Hollande The future of Europe is at stake in UK referendum Regardless, Europe needs new steps after vote UK risks losing access to the common market if it leaves...
IMF urges Fed to let inflation overshoot The forecast for growth this year was cut to 2.2% from 2.4%. The 2017 forecast was left unchanged at 2.5%. The latest Fed forecasts are for 2.0% in 2016 and 2017...
The Daily Mail has endorsed a 'Leave' vote in the Brexit referendum I'd post a link but whenever I have the Daily Mail open on my browser I spend far too long clicking on the column on right of screen - way too many bikinis there. OK, time for a quick glance... here's the front page...
Migration data from New Zealand gets a bit of attention as it is cited in impacts on the price of houses, which in turn apparently has impacts on RBNZ monetary policy c'mon Statz NZ .... your data page isn't loading ... yay, here it is...
The Brexit vote hasn't started yet but already the excuses for losing are being made. Apparently it was all rigged...
This is from 'What UK Thinks', its their 'Poll of Polls' The average of the six most recent polls Fieldwork conducted between 14 and 20 June 2016 Based on two (online) polls by YouGov, two (phone) polls by Survation, one (online) poll by Opinium, and one (phone) poll by ORB The most recent additi...
Janet Yellen appeared in the US Congress Tuesday (or as I like to call it, 'overnight') Reuters have a bit of a recap up on what they say was "a generally civil 2-1/2-hour hearing" It's a bit of a disgrace when we have to mention that it was generally civil...
