BoJ Tankan Worsens – Deutsche Bank Taisuke Tanaka, Strategist at Deutsche Bank, suggests that the downward risk to USD/JPY is greater under worsening Japan-US economic conditions...
Low Commodity Prices, Market Volatility Continues to Weigh on Canada's Small Business Confidence Small business confidence in Canada deteriorated again in March after taking a break in February. The CFIB business barometer index dropped 2.4 points to 52.3 in March, the lowest since early 2009...
Indonesia Inflation Rises As Expected In March Indonesia's consumer price inflation accelerated as expected in March, though slightly, figures from the Central Statistical Agency showed Friday. The consumer price index rose 4.45 percent year-over-year in March, faster than the 4...
Oil Drops Amid Risk-off in Equities Oil benchmarks fell in Asia and remain weak in early Europe amid signs of risk aversion in the Asian equities. At the time of writing, WTI oil was down almost 1% at $38/barrel. Brent oil was down 0.67% at $40.06/barrel...
Australian Bonds Slump on Firm U.S Data The Australian 10-year bond tumbled on Friday, tracking U.S. trends after strong economic data from U.S...
There is No Basis for Continued Depreciation of the Yuan - Xinhua Xinhua News Agency reporting comments from China’s foreign ministry on the Yuan and country’s fiscal policy...
Chinese PMI Suite Hints at More of the Same GDP Growth - TDS Annette Beacher, Chief Asia-Pac Macro Strategist at TD Securities, suggests that the PMI prints are really only as useful as their predictive power, and for China they remain frustratingly unreliable...
USD: Evidence of FX Reserves Rebalancing – Nomura Research Team at Nomura, suggests that the FX reserves rebalancing may explain some of the weakness in USD...
CAD: Canadian Growth Surprises - Nomura Charles St-Arnaud, Research Analyst at Nomura, suggests that a recovery in the manufacturing sector and in most sectors has pushed the Canadian growth higher. Key Quotes “Monthly GDP increased by 0...
Oil Eases in Asia, Brent Flirts with $ 40 Oil benchmarks on both sides of Atlantic resumed their broader downtrend after a brief stint to the upside seen on Thursday, as a stronger US dollar weighed on the black gold...
Asian Stocks in Red Ahead of Non Farm Job Results, Gold Finds Support Around $1230 All the major Asian markets are trading in red as market await NFP job results. In addition, Gold remains supported around $1230 mark...
BoE: Credit Crunch Risks Ahead? - BTMU Analysts at Bank of Tokyo explained that the BoE warns of credit crunch risks...
USD/JPY is Vulnerable to a Resolution - Scotiabank Eric Theoret, CFA, CMT FX Strategist at Scotibank explained that JPY is steady consolidating its recent gains, trading around the mid-point of its multi-month range...
GBP Voltility and Tin Hats - Rabobank Analysts at Rabobank explained that the value of the UK trade weighted index has plunged around 6% since the start of the year...
Tomorrow is the first Friday of a new month and that means only one thing – it’s non-farm payroll (NFP). All eyes will be front and center when March’s U.S monthly jobs report is released at 08:30 EDT...
Brent: Pressure on the Price will Continue The data released by the US Department of Energy yesterday showed that oil reserves in the USA amounted to 2.299 million barrels last week. The rise was below expectation of +3.167 barrels. However, the reserves have reached 80-year high...
UK Steel Industry Crisis Adds Fodder to Brexit Supporters? Tata Steel on Wednesday put its British business up for sale, adding that EU rules restricting state aid were to blame for its decision – a claim which was seized on by campaigners for Brexit...
Eurocoin Indicator Falls To 11-Month Low In March The eurocoin indicator, which measures the current economic situation in the euro area dropped for the second straight month in March to the weakest level in nearly one year, a report from the Bank of Italy and the Centre for Economic Policy Resea...
AUD: Temporary Strength but Long Term Weakness to Prevail – ANZ Research Team at ANZ, suggests that the recent rally in the AUD has coincided with a basing in commodity prices, but in fact it represents a repricing of global recessionary risk...
