US: Yellen Manages to Up Her Dovishness Even Further - MUFG Derek Halpenny, European Head of GMR at MUFG, notes that the Fed Chair Yellen managing to escalate her dovish stance even further with comments yesterday that would make you wonder what it is that Chair Yellen knows that we all don’t...
XAU/USD: Risks for Economic Growth in the USA Yesterday’s speech by the head of the US fed Janet Yellen obviously disappointed market participants, as it indicated that chances of the interest rate increase in the USA in April are low...
Euro Zone Sentiment Sours Despite Being captured Before Brussels Attack Euro Zone sentiment report showed confidence tilted despite additional stimulus from European Central Bank. Moreover the data were collected before recent terror attack on Brussels...
Fed: On the Wings of a Dove - Investec Research Team at Investec, suggests that despite hawkish comments from various Federal Reserve members since the decidedly dovish FOMC statement earlier this month, Fed Chair Janet Yellen stuck to her dovish tone from the central bank meeting in a speech yes...
German Inflation Likely to Snap Out of Negative Territory - TDS Research Team at TDS, notes that the regional German CPI data point to a positive print for the HICP release. Key Quotes “We had gone into the day flagging upside risks to the consensus of 0...
Economic Sentiment Tumbles for Eurozone - ING Bert Colijn, Research Analyst at ING, notes that the economic sentiment indicator for the Eurozone decreased by 0.9 points to 103 in March...
ECB's Weidmann Warns Against Brexit In an interview to Germany's Funke Mediengruppe, published via Reuters on Wednesday, ECB policymaker and Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann issued a warning against Britain’s exit from EU...
Eurozone Economic Confidence At 13-Month Low Eurozone economic sentiment fell to a 13-month low in March, survey results from the European Commission showed Wednesday. The economic sentiment index came in at 103 versus 103.9 in February. This was the lowest reading since February 2015...
Euro Zone is Not in Deflation – ECB’s Villeroy ECB’s Governing Council member Francois Villeroy de Galhaud has argued that negative inflation figures in the region are temporary, while he sees them picking up pace in the second half of the year...
US ADP Employment and Eurozone Confidence Main Market Movers Today – Danske Bank Research Team at Danske Bank, suggests that the release of the ADP employment data for March should give us an early indication of what to expect from the official job report for March due on Friday although, admitte...
Expect Downward Pressure on the JPY Going Forward - NAB Research Team at NAB, notes that the Japan’s foreign exchange reserves remain high, and at USD1.25 trillion are the second highest in the world, after China...
BOJ’s Negative Rates Drive Japanese Lending Rates to Record Low On Wednesday, Reuters reported the data released by Bank of Japan (BOJ), which showed the Japanese lending rates hit a record low in February, and highlighted its negative impact on the commercial banks' profit margins...
Oil Rebounds in Asia, EIA Inventory Report Eyed Oil benchmarks on both sides of Atlantic posed a minor rebound in the Asian trades, bringing a halt to the five consecutive sessions of declines...
ECB Coeure: Won’t take Rates into 'Absurdly Negative Territory' More ECB Coeure headlines from Politico interview published on ECB site: Not short of instruments; choice quite large Won’t take rates into 'absurdly negative territory' 'Helicopter money' not part of Gov council discussion...
Japan’s Current Account Surges to a Recent High - NAB Research Team at NAB, notes that the Japan’s current account surplus surged to ¥16.64 trillion in 2015 (3.3% of GDP), the strongest outcome since 2010. Key Quotes “The goods account improved by ¥11.3 trillion (to -¥643...
JPY: Impact on Economy of Strong Yen – Nomura FX strategy team at Nomura, had lowered its end-2016 USD/JPY forecast to 122, from 130...
Investors returned to the big banks to push up the local market, after the dovish comments from US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen overnight. The ASX 200 was up 42 points in early trade, or 0.8%, at 5047, while the All Ordinaries was up 41 points at 5117...
Nikkei 225 Drops, Rest of Asia Climb on Cautious Yellen The stocks on the Asian bourses climbed on Wednesday, taking the positive lead from the Wall Street overnight on dovish Yellen, which smashed April Fed rate hike expectations...
Asian Development Bank Cuts its China Growth Forecast Asian Development Bank (ADB) lowered its forecasts for China’s economic growth to 6.5% in 2016 from 6.7% seen in its December forecast. While GDP growth forecast for 2017 stood at 6.3...
