FTSE Gains Erased in Topsy-Turvy Day FTSE punishes those chasing early gains US CPI raises chance of June hike UK manufacturing in decline as prices fall An impressive batch of US data has helped compound equity weakness that had one foot in the European stock markets today...
US CPI Supports Fed’s Inflation Outlook - Wells Fargo According to analysts from Wells Fargo, today’s US CPI numbers support the Federal Reserve outlook that inflation is gradually trending toward its target...
Crude Oil Rally Boosts Risk Assets, Commodity Currencies It has been a remarkable year for crude oil and market participants that specialize in this particular market...
Canadian Bonds Tad Up on Weak Manufacturing Sales, Likely to Slump on Firm Crude The Canadian long-term bonds traded modestly firmer on Tuesday after reading weak March manufacturing sales. Moreover, bond prices are likely to be ruled by the movements in global crude oil...
RBA Minutes Lack Explicit Easing Bias, But Extent of Infation Downgrades Keep Alive Rate Cut Bets Minutes of the RBA May 3rd policy meet definitely lack explicit easing bias...
FxWirePro: Hedging Baskets in Asian Crosses ahead of Economic Data Turbulence The Thai economy grew by 0.9% on a QoQ seasonally adjusted basis in the March quarter of 2016, compared to a 0.8% growth in the previous quarter and above market consensus of a 0...
U.S. Treasuries Slide on Firm Economic Data The U.S. Treasuries slumped on Tuesday as consumer price index ticked higher in April. Firmer U.S housing starts also added to the downfall. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note which moves inversely to its price rose 1bp to 1...
WTI Retakes $48.00 ahead of Fedspeak, API The barrel of West Texas Intermediate is back around the $48.00 mark after deflating to the $47.50 region. WTI off 2016 highs The recovery of crude oil prices has lifted the WTI to levels last seen in October 2015 around $48...
Curb Your (Dollar) Enthusiasm: For Now - TDS Ned Rumpeltin, European Head of Currency Strategy at TD Securities, outlines their core G10 FX views for the period ahead. Key Quotes “After several months of weakness, the USD has traded with a generally better tone since the start of May...
Cable Goes on a Tear Market Drivers May 17, 2016 UK Powers through 1.4500 but loses it on cold CPI data RBA minutes suggest hold Nikkei 0.13% Dax 0.12...
FTSE Surges after-Hours The FTSE 100 is showing a gain of nearly 1% so far this morning with the building sector rallying after Taylor Wimpey announced a special dividend...
Oil Price Gains Underpin Sentiment A mostly positive session in Asia as the upside in energy prices coupled with some marginal gains in Apple shares helped to underpin risk sentiment...
Sterling and the AUD at Their Highest Correlation in Nearly Four Years - BBH Research Team at BBH, have argued that the place to look for investor anxiety about the UK referendum is not the spot market but the options market. Key Quotes “At the start of next week, it is a month away...
Japan’s GDP Preview: Scraping Through - ING James Smith, Economist at ING, suggests that this week’s Japanese GDP figure may show that the economy narrowly missed recession, but demand remains weak and will keep the pressure on policymakers to act...
AUD Gains More Intuitively Clear - BBH Research Team at BBH, suggests that the Australian dollar's gains appear more intuitively clear after the minutes from the recent RBA meeting indicated that it was a close decision...
AUD on a High after RBA Minutes - Investec Research Team at Investec, notes that the Australian Dollar rallied as the minutes from their recent rate cut meeting showed the RBA board members considered leaving the interest rate unchanged so they could await more information before finally opting t...
Gold Retreats Further to $1270 ahead of US CPI Data After retreating from session high of $1288 on Monday, Gold turned back from $1280-81 area on Tuesday and dropped to $1269 despite of weakness in the greenback. Weakening US Dollar is looked upon for increasing appetite for the precious metal...
U.S. Presidential Election Series: Why Trump can Win the Presidency Dumbfounding many political pundits and proving many more wrong, Donald Trump has emerged as presumptive Republican nominee for the race to the White House...