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The Malaysian ringgit remains susceptible to external factors that drive cross-border portfolio flows and playing a decisive role in influencing the MYR exchange rate in the coming months as Malaysia’s domestic political uncertainty has subsided markedly...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 16:04
The Eurozone periphery bonds slumped Monday as the European Central Bank kept its monetary policy rate and the pace of quantitative easing steady. This decision was widely expected by the market participants and economists...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 16:02
HIBOR or the Hong Kong Interbank Offer Rate became infamous earlier this year in January when overnight rate touched above 68 percent as the People’s bank of China (PBoC) drew liquidity from the offshore market via state-owned banks to discourage speculators from pushing the yuan lower and keep a...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 16:00
Inflation in Denmark slows in August from the previous month. It accelerated 0.2 percent year-on-year in August, 0.1 percentage point lower than in July. It was also lower than the consensus expectations of 0.5 percent. Core inflation decelerated to 0.6 percent year-on-year from 0...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 15:54
The negative interest rate policy has raised doubts over the potential impact on capital markets as the debate about whether a negative interest rate policy (NIRP) helps or hinders the transmission mechanism of monetary policy continues to rage...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 15:44 #IMF
The UK gilts traded mixed Monday following a rise in the United States Treasury yields after hawkish comments made by the Federal Reserve policymakers...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 15:43
Canadian economy started 2016 on a strong footing, growing 0.6 percent q/q in Q1. However, it was unable to sustain the strong momentum into Q2. Oil production downtime caused by the wildfires was the main drag...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 15:37
The People’s Bank of China is expected to stay neutral for an extended period of time, in order to avoid potential property and financial bubbles. The corridor of 7-day repo rate is targeted to center around 2.25 percent until the end of 2017...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 15:35
Friday’s spike in the pair hasn’t been moving anywhere beyond 136.230 levels northwards nor even below 135.854 levels on southwards. Failure swings at the resistance of 136.230 (21SMA), have now broken supports at 135.854 levels...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 15:34
The upcoming New Zealand REINZ house sales report for the month of August would be the real evidence of the effect of the tighter loan-to-value ratio limits that the nation’s central bank mentioned in late July, said Westpac in a research note...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 15:30
The German bund yields moved into positive territory Monday for the first time since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 15:24
The mainstream allegations that Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is not well and some called that she isn’t fit to become the President of the United States...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 15:12
Consumer price inflation in the Philippines rose during the month of August, despite easing in annual gains of food and non-alcoholic beverages. However, the headline inflation is still expected to average out by end of 2016, before possibly rising next year...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 15:11
This week is relatively less risk heavy compared to last week. Nevertheless, a fresh batch of data from the United Kingdom should keep the drums beating. What to watch for over the coming days: U.S...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 14:56
EUR/SEK is currently trading around 9.5634 levels. It made intraday high at 9.5646 and low at 9.5263 levels. Intraday bias remains bullish till the time pair holds key support at 9.5405 marks. A daily close below 9.54 will take the parity down towards key supports at 9.5174, 9.4637, 9.4406, 9...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 14:54
1W and 2W ATM IVs of GBP crosses are rising dramatically in OTC markets, GBPJPY flashing more than 13% and 16% respectively ahead of this week’s monetary policy by Bank of England which is likely to stand pat but previous minutes hint on more easing on the cards...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 14:53
Germany’s final HICP inflation is expected to have remained the same as the flash estimate in August. According to a Societe Generale research report, final HICP inflation is likely to confirm the flash reading of 0.3 percent year-on-year in August...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 14:46
Initiate long in USDTWD at spot reference 31.75 entered via 3m NDF with a stop target of 33.14 (+4.3%) and a stop slightly below the recent low at 30.99 (-2.3%). The trade horizon would be 3-4 months. With negative forward points, carry in the 3m tenor is positive at 19bp/month...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 14:45
How to quickly develop and debug a trading strategy in MetaTrader 5 12 September 2016, 10:26 "No one can be trusted, but me" (с) Debugger Scalping automatic systems are rightfully regarded the pinnacle of algorithmic trading, but at the same time their code is the most difficult to write...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 14:43
CFTC commitment of traders report was released on Friday (9th September) and cover positions up to Tuesday (6th September). COT report is not a complete presenter of entire market positions since the future market is relatively smaller compared to Spot FX market...
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Eko Rediantoro, 12 September 2016, 14:40