Closing in negative territory during the previous week's trading session - amid growing worries over a potential breakthrough in US-China trade discord and fears of a growth slowdown in Asia - Asian stock markets have been rising higher, despite uncertainties relating to a potential easing of tra...
The pound rose by 0.77% following yesterday’s announcement of a Brexit deal, but there is a long road yet ahead to ratification. The 27 European Union member states will vote on Sunday 25 November: a yes is expected, even though Spain is threatening to veto over Gibraltar...
The bear market in crude started early October 2018 and is not ending. The 6 December 2018 OPEC meeting in Vienna will be a key event: the group of 15 could decide to either cut production in the range of 1.4 million barrels per day or stick with the current production plan...
President Xi Jinping’s meeting in Manila, Philippines, the first Chinese state visit in the region in 13 years, is expected to tighten the relationship between the Pacific neighbors...
Swiss exports have been growing fast, thanks to a rebound in Swiss exporting industries. Key support for the recovery are chemical and pharma products, which reached CHF 9 billion in exports for October, adding CHF 937 million of trade surplus. In total, the trade balance is estimated at CHF 2...
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Swiss exports have been growing fast, thanks to a rebound in Swiss exporting industries. Key support for the recovery are chemical and pharma products, which reached CHF 9 billion in exports for October, adding CHF 937 million of trade surplus. In total, the trade balance is estimated at CHF 2...
Eurozone equities remain in green, despite continued conflict over Italy’s budget. The BTP-Bund 10-year spread has remained at 3.05-3.15% since last Wednesday, suggesting that investors’ fear over Italian fiscal policy risk is stabilizing...
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit closed with no joint communiqué for the first time in its 29 years of existent...
There is a high likelihood that the meeting of US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month won’t be game changing. The best-case would be that both leaders confirm their intent to maintain talks...
The pound’s plunged 1.5% this morning, as uncertainty over Brexit soared. Yesterday, the UK Cabinet approved a 585-page deal drawn up with the European Union...
High-level trade talks have resumed as US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a phone call at the beginning of the month, signalling negotiations in anticipation of their upcoming meeting at the G20 at the end of this month...
A Brexit deal is on the table, but will it pass this afternoon’s Cabinet meeting? The cable is currently trading sideways, meaning traders don’t know: we expect GBP/USD to head along 1.2840...
Three weeks after rejecting Italy’s deficit budget proposal, the EU will have to take serious decisions on 21 November. The consequence of inaction could have a tough impact on the Italian government, as Brussels could request Italy to transfer a deposit equivalent of 0...
Oil is rallying marginally as Saudi Arabia expressed interest to cut supply in December. Despite the USA sanctions on Iran that started on 5th November, crude oil prices have fallen...
USD/CNY is trading at 6.9475, bouncing back due to resurgent optimism that the China-US trade war might be resolved in late November and on stable Chinese inflation rates. October inflation came in 2.50% (prior: 2...
Whither the dollar? Dips are recurring in EUR/USD: these are opportunities to reload long positions. Trader are unlikely to hold risky trades over this weekend, although we anticipate a strong USD close today. Positive sentiment from midterm elections has worn-off...
China is ideally positioned, but needs improvement on US trade tensions to stage a solid recovery. We continue to position for a strong China equity bounce. China's inflation has weakened slightly to 2.4% yearly in October from 2.5% in Sept due to weaker food prices...
As US election risk fades, so does risk aversion. However, the risk rally has been weak. High beta, trade sensitive emerging market currencies INR, ZAR, TRY and CLP have seen heavy buying in the past week...