JPY: Asia Bears Need Abe Too – Deutsche Bank Mallika Sachdeva, Strategist at Deutsche Bank, suggests that the Asian FX gains have been attributed to a mix of seasonality, covering of offshore under-weights on Asian equities, unwind of speculative long USD positions, and reprieve from a dovish Fed...
USD Struggling as Real Yields Head Further into Negative Territory - BNPP Research Team at BNP Paribas, suggests that more broadly the USD is struggling to rebound amid a backdrop of increasingly negative real rates...
European Stocks Retreat in Early Trading Major European stocks are on the back foot, although strength in oil is keeping the losses moderate. At the time of writing, Stoxx 50 index was largely unchanged on the day. Mining heavy London’s FTSE index was down 0.16%. France’s CAC was down 0...
Rebounding Iron Ore Prices Support AUD Ahead of Key Employment Report - BNPP Research Team at BNP Paribas, suggests that the commodity currencies have been gradually gaining ground against the USD this week and this comes against a back drop of stable equity markets but a rebound of several key c...
India: Monetary Policy Outlook April 2016 - NAB Research Team at NAB, notes that the RBI cut the policy Repo rate by 25bps at its April meeting and also tightened the policy corridor to better align policy rates with the call rate (interbank overnight borrowing rate...
US: Import Prices and Small Business Optimism in the Limelight - TDS Research Team at TDS, suggests that in the US import prices and small business optimism make up a limited data calendar for Tuesday. Key Quotes “TD has forecasted a 1...
BOJ Reduces Bank Funds That Will be Subject to New Negative Rate - Bloomberg As Bloomberg reports, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is reducing the share of funds financial institutions keep at the BOJ that will be subject to the new negative interest rate policy...
UK CPI Preview: What to Expect of GBP/USD? UK cost of living as measured by consumer price index (CPI) and core consumer price index is due for release today. Economists expect inflation to have ticked higher in March (0.4% y/y and 0.3% m/m...
Gold Trades Comatose, While Treasury Yields Rise Gold prices are trading largely unchanged on the day around $1257 levels amid rising treasury yields and equally comatose dollar index. Retreats from three-week high The metal backed-off from the three-week high of $1260 set yesterday...
RBA Likely to Remain ‘On Hold’ for Now – Westpac Sean Callow, Strategist at Westpac Global Strategy Group, believes the RBA will not deliver further easing in the next months. Key Quotes “The RBA held the cash rate at 2.0% in April as expected...
Oil Eases-Off Multi-Week Highs, WTI Near $ 40 Oil benchmarks on both sides of Atlantic paused its 2-day rally and dipped this Tuesday, as the traders turned cautious ahead of the API and EIA inventory reports...
UK CPI and Fed Speak in Focus Today – Danske Bank Research Team at Danske Bank, suggests that several Fed members are due to speak this week. Key Quotes “Today, it is time for Harker, Lacker and Williams to deliver their view on the economy...
Guide to Today's Important Data and Events Lots of economic dockets scheduled for today and some with high risk associated. Data released so far – Australia – National Australia Bank’s business confidence improved to 6 from 3, while business conditions improved to 12 compared to 8. Upcoming –...
ECB’s Villeroy: Low Interest Rates are Consistent with Mandate Speaking on Radio Classique, ECB governing council member and Bank of France governor Villeroy said that Europe needs a finance minister in place, besides commenting on the inflation outlook...
EUR/GBP Flirting with 0.8000, UK Data Eyed EUR/GBP is looking to stabilize in the 0.8000 area following yesterday’s sharp pullback from the 0.8100 neighbourhood...
Australian Business Confidence Surges – Deutsche Bank David Plank, Macro strategist at Deutsche Bank, notes that in Australia the NAB business survey reported a rise in confidence and conditions. Key Quotes “Business conditions rose to 12, the highest level since the global financial crisis...
UK March Headline Inflation Expected at 0.2% y/y - TDS Research Team at TDS, suggests that there were sharp cuts to many gas providers’ prices in March, but it’s not clear if the ONS will pick them up in March’s or April’s CPI release...
What COFER Data Imply for Chinese Reserves? - Nomura Research Team at Nomura, suggests that the inclusion of Chinese reserves data into COFER makes it difficult to follow what FX reserve managers are doing, while increasing expectations on the allocation of the Chinese reserves portfolio...
Asian Markets Mix Again, Gold Remains supported Above $1250 Asian markets continue to trade on mix note without providing any directions for the short term. The USD/JPY was trading 0.23% higher at 108.18 on Tuesday morning in Tokyo, having fallen as low as 107...
Negative Interest Rate Economies: Spot the Odd One Out – Deutsche Bank Oliver Harvey,Macro strategist at Deutsche Bank, suggests that Central banks’ experiment with negative interest rates continues apace this year, with the BoJ the latest to have dipped a toe in the water and the ECB edging furt...
