China: Strong Reasons for the PBOC to Stay the Course - ING Tim Condon, Chief Economist at ING, assumes that the PBOC is likely to keep the NEER steady and ING’s forecast that USD/Majors will be range bound is behind their yearend 6.47 USD/CNY forecast...
With the world economy entering a more uncertain phase and the top central banks sounding ever more cautious, attention may turn in the coming week to signs of whether years of aggressive stimulus have yielded any significant rise in inflation. The U.S...
Fed’s Dudley – Cautions Approach to Rate Hikes Appropriate New York Fed’s Dudley, while speaking in Connecticut, said a cautious and gradual approach to rate hikes is appropriate...
BoE Could be a ‘Non-Event’ Next Week – TDS In opinion of strategists at TD Securities, the Bank of England would leave unchanged its monetary conditions at its meeting next week...
Treasury Yields Rise on Oil and US Growth Prospects Treasury prices in the US fell, pushing the yields higher, tracking rise in oil prices and prospects of a pickup in the US economy. At the time of writing, US 10-yr treasury yield was up almost three basis points at 1.715...
Canada is Expected to Have Grown 10k Jobs in March - BBH Research Team at BBH, suggests that the Canadian dollar’s advance has cut this week’s decline in half and today’s employment data will likely determine how it finishes the week...
GBP During the Campaign Period - Nomura Research Team at Nomura, suggests that currently, bookmakers’ odds imply the probability of Brexit is around 33...
Japan Reported Larger than Expected Currency Account Surplus - BBH Research Team at BBH, notes that Japan did report a larger than expected February currency account surplus. Key Quotes “It rose to JPY2.435 trillion, the most since March 2015, from JPY520 bln in January...
JPY Advancing Streak has been Stopped - BBH Research Team at BBH, suggests that the surging yen has been the main feature in the foreign exchange market in recent days, but its advancing streak has been stopped with today's setback. Key Quotes “The greenback briefly dipped below JPY 107...
ECB: Members Expressed Concerns About Further Cut in the Deposit Rate - Rabobank Stefan Koopman, Market Economist at Rabobank, suggests that there was a broad agreement among the members of the Governing Council that the inflation and growth outlook had deteriorated since the meeting in December...
JPY: Partial Reversal but Upside Risks to Persist - MUFG Derek Halpenny, European Head of GMR at MUFG, suggests that the Japanese Finance Minister Aso spoke in early Tokyo trading today helping to stem the relentless buying of the yen, expressing concern over the “excessive” and “one-sided” moves...
Chinese FX Reserves Increase Supported by USD Weakness - Rabobank Stefan Koopman, Market Economist at Rabobank, notes that against all odds, Chinese FX reserves increased by USD 10bn, ending up at USD 3,213bn in March...
Swiss Fx Reserves Increases in Past 12 Months EUR/CHF was under moderate pressure in the past few days. It is now trading much below the mark of 1.09 again. The new exchange rate regime does not work to avert increase in balance sheet of SNB, according to Commerzbank...
US: Yellen Provides Balance to Previous Pessimism - MUFG Derek Halpenny, European Head of GMR at MUFG, notes that the Fed Chair Yellen was last night more eager to emphasise the positives while sharing the stage with the previous three Fed Chairmen – Volker, Greenspan and Bernanke...
Should BoJ Intervene in Yen? We at FxWirePro, think they should not. Even if they still do, it may not yield the result they are looking for. Reasons being simple – According to G20 agreement, currency intervention to exploit trade benefits through competitive devaluations are not to be practiced...
USD Lacks Underlying Support - Westpac Richard Franulovich, Research Analyst at Westpac, suggests that a spike in risk aversion may save the USD on selected crosses near term but the beyond that the currency lacks underlying support...
Riksbank Could Stay ‘On-Hold’ in April – Danske Bank According to Senior Analyst at Danske Bank Sverre Holbek, the Riksbank could stay put at its meeting later in the month...
China: Stabilisation of March FX Reserves - Nomura Research Team at Nomura, notes that China’s headline FX reserves rose by USD10.3bn m-o-m in March to USD3.213trn compared with our expectation of a small USD10.0bn decline (we forecast headline reserves at USD3.192trn...
EUR/USD in a Tight Range Near 1.1370 The shared currency is trading almost unchanged vs. its American counterpart at the beginning of the week, taking EUR/USD to the 1.1370 area. EUR/USD gains capped near 1.1450 The pair has faded yesterday’s spike to fresh 2016 peaks in the mid-1...
