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Significant selling pressures. (By Yann Quelenn) • EUR/USD is biased to the downside after setting a new hourly support at 1.1575 (27/10/2017 low). Hourly resistance is located at...
In 2007 around 25 percent of US equity funds were passively managed. Today that number is around 50 percent. Do economists care about the active versus passive debate? The instinctive answer is "no". However, the rise of passive investing since 2007 has been accompanied by other changes...
The central banks of Australia (RBA) and New Zealand (RBNZ) will meet next week to decide on their monetary policy stance. CIO doesn't expect a rate hike from the RBA until later next year, as it has to balance financial stability worries with weak wage growth and core inflation...
Price of gold remains above $1270. Since the start of the year, we recall that gold has gained almost 6% underlining global uncertainties. It is important to assess gold’s potential by looking at China as a significant part of the market takes place in China...
Oil prices are looking to break resistance at $55.03 making 2017 new highs. Decline oil stocks and solid growth in demand has overcome weather and geopolitical issues. Brent is now trading above $60brl and futures backwardation has invited deeper buying in the long end of the curve...
The nomination of Jerome Powell as next Federal Reserve Chairman came as no surprise. The US dollar barely reacted to the news. The US Dollar Index treaded water within its weekly range, between 94.4 and 95...
That was clearly not a surprise. Fed hold rates unchanged and has hinted for a December rate hike. The key rate stays at 1% to 1.25% of the FOMC. The likelihood of a rate hike for December has now been assessed by markets above 92...
t widely expected (Rates markets are pricing in a 90% probability of a hike) the Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee will hike policy rates 25bp after 10 years. We are expecting MPC 7-2 vote split with committee members Cunliffe and Ramsden dissenting for a no action...
(01 NOVEMBER 2017)DAILY MARKET BRIEF 2:High expectations for the US ADP data before the FOMC meeting
Today we get US labor ADP data ahead of the NFP report on Friday. Bloomberg Survey indicates new jobs creation for October of 200k compared to the prior September read of 135k. The overall sentiment is positive and it has been 7 years that the data print positive...