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USD Positions Consolidated while EUR Shorts Reduced - Rabobank Jane Foley, Senior FX Strategist at Rabobank, lists down the IMM Net Speculators’ Positioning as at 22 March 2016. Key Quotes • “Having declined for six consecutive weeks, USD positions consolidated ahead of the Easter break...
JPY: Mixed Data - BBH Research Team at BBH, notes that the Japan reported mixed data overnight. Key Quotes “The jobless rate ticked up unexpectedly to 3.3% in February even as the jobs to applicant ratio remained steady at 1.28. Several measures of retail sales and household spending were mixed...
SGD: Sing in the Wings – Deutsche Bank Research Team at Deutsche Bank, suggests that there was little pushback to their view that MAS would not change policy at their April meeting given a reiteration of their core inflation forecasts, and fiscal support...
CNY: Tail-sizing – Deutsche Bank Research Team at Deutsche Bank, tries to answer the question that how large was the tail on Chinese growth and FX now. Key Quotes “Some suggested China was not the main tail risk for markets anymore, rather it was Europe (refugee crisis, Brexit, terrorism...
Oil in Global Economy Series: Saudi Games Not Working After more than a year into deployment, cracks are now plenty to conclude that Saudi Arabia’s strategy to keep production high, drive out high cost producers and increase/retain its market share has failed...
U.S Treasury Trades Flat Ahead of Yellen's Speech The U.S. sovereign bonds were flat on Tuesday as investors awaited a speech by Federal Reserve’s Chair Janet Yellen which could give further indications for next interest rate hike, despite weak economic data on Monday...
FXWIREPRO: GBP/JPY Faces Strong Resistance at 162.80, Good to Sell on Rallies Major resistance - 162.80 Minor support - 161.30 Major support 160.50 (200 day 4 HMA) The pair has broken minor resistance 161.80 and jumped till 162.34 at the time of writing. It is currently trading around 162.18...
Barclays Warns Over Commodity Longs UK’s investment bank, Barclays has issued warning against recent rallies in commodities and investors; interest in commodity products both stocks as well as ETFs...
Currency Markets Likely to See increased Volatility on Fed Hike Expectations The dollar staged a nice bounce-back from post FOMC lows supported by both safe-haven flows as a result of the Brussels terror attacks, as well as surprisingly hawkish comments from Fed officials in recent days...