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The Bank of Japan will keep its policy unchanged for now. Positive price momentum gives the BoJ coverage to keep policy unchanged, despite speculation of premature normalization. However, the BoJ is clearly running out of time, and the market know this...
The S&P’s intraday move of 1.41% was the largest since early December and the fifth biggest since December 2016. The euro also retreated by 1.1% against the dollar from an intra-day high of 1...
This year started with some attention-grabbing exchange rate moves. Markets will now be looking to the central banks for their reaction. CIO will be watching the ECB and BoJ press conferences and policy decisions closely...
The recent US economic releases boosted equity markets to higher ends yesterday while EU markets remained on the sidelines: Dow Jones Industrial Average: +1.25%, Nasdaq: +1.03%, S&P500: +0.94% and Euro Stoxx 50: -0.25...
It has been a quite week so far for the Australian dollar. The Aussie economic calendar was relatively light, while market participants mostly focused their attention on Trump comments and fears about an US government shutdown...
The entire crypto-asset market went through a massive sell-off since the beginning of the week with the total market capitalisation shrinking by $262 billion, down to $450 billion, the lowest level since mid-December last year...
For the second consecutive year, Germany has become the country with the largest current account surplus in the world in 2017 according to the ifo Institute Center for Economic Studies (CES...
Since the recent US government bonds yield hike of last week (2-year government bond rates reaching above 2%, a 10 years high) and the market excitement that followed, coupled with possible Japanese and European central bank policy tightening, we could wonder whether we might be expecting an immi...
After printing a new multi-month high on Monday, the pound sterling has stabilised gains at around $1.3785...