Slowing Credit Growth Poses Downside Risk to China's Property Market Chinese construction activity continued ramp up in April, but concerns are rising about the sustainability of growth. A rebound in real estate investment in early 2016 has supported a surge in construction activity...
Canadian Bonds Plunge As Crude Hits Record 6-Month High The Canadian government bonds plunged on Monday as investors cooled on safe-haven assets amid gains in equities and oil. The yield on the benchmark 10-year bonds, which moves inversely to its price rose 2bps to 1...
US Stocks Open Higher but Struggling for Direction Major stock indices in the US opened slightly higher on Monday after a reading of New York-area manufacturing conditions failed to boost investor sentiment...
WTI Climbs Further Near $48.00 Crude oil prices area extending the upside momentum at the beginning of the week, boosted by a weak greenback and Goldman Sachs news. WTI up on GS, USD, Nigeria The barrel of West Texas Intermediate is hovering over the upper-$47...
Macro Shocks and Financial Conditions – Goldman Sachs Research Team at Goldman Sachs, suggests that they have argued that financial conditions drive much of the business cycle, but what drives financial conditions...
Gold Inches Higher Post Disappointing US Economic Data Gold extended its bid tone after the release of disappointing Empire State manufacturing index from the US, lifting the yellow metal to a six-day high level of $1288.77...
EUR Shorts Reduced for Eight Consecutive Weeks - Rabobank Jane Foley, Research Analyst at Rabobank, lists down the IMM Net Speculators’ Positioning as at 10 May 2016...
GBP: Volatility Ahead? - Rabobank Jane Foley, Research Analyst at Rabobank, notes that the Bank of England Governor Carney yesterday defended the warnings over a Brexit that were contained in the Bank’s policy statement last week...
FTSE, CAC Drop Amid Holiday-Thinned Markets The sentiment on the European equity markets remained calm, with only London and French markets open for trading, while rest of Europe enjoys Whit Monday holiday. Hence, a quiet trading calendar and low volumes kept the trading activity largely subdued...
Oil Rises above $47.00 Mark to a Fresh 6-Month High WTI crude oil futures kicked-off the fresh trading week on a strong footing, moving back above $47.00/barrel mark for the first time since early November 2015 on bullish comments from a leading investment banker...
Gold Firmer, $ 1300 Back on Sight ahead of US CPI, Fed Minutes Gold kicked-off the week on a brighter note and now extends gains for the second straight day this Monday, on the back of poor China dataflow and a broadly weaker US dollar...
Traders wanting to know what November’s U.S. presidential election will mean for the dollar need look no further than the U.K. The pound plunged to a seven-year low and volatility soared, exceeding all other Group-of-10 nations, on risks created by a referendum on European Union membership...
Japan narrowly escaped recession in the first quarter, according to a broad view of market analysts, but weak domestic demand and a volatile global economy will continue to stall recovery efforts in the world’s third largest economy...
Oil Bounces Over 1% on Goldman Sachs Comments Oil benchmarks on both sides of Atlantic resumed its recent upsurge after a brief drop seen last Friday, in response to the optimistic comments from long-time bear Goldman Sachs on oil fundamentals...
AUD: Plenty of Fuel for Further Decline - Westpac Sean Callow, Research Analyst at Westpac, notes that the CTFC’s Commitment of Traders report showed the expected further reduction in speculative AUD net long positions in the week to 10 May (i.e. including the response to the RBA’s SoMP...
Fed: What is Needed to Secure Another Rate Hike? - ING James Smith, Economist at ING, suggests that the key to the next FOMC rate hike now lies with a pick-up in US activity data. Key Quotes “Three conditions needed to secure another rate hike from the Fed...
China: Construction Activity Continued Ramp up in April - NAB Gerard Burg, Senior Economist at ING, suggests that Chinese construction activity continued ramp up in April, but he is concerned about the sustainability of growth...
US Retail Sales Bounces Back but More is Required for a Rate Hike - ING James Knightley, Research Analyst at ING, notes that the US retail sales for April were up 1.3%MoM, above the 0.8% consensus while the “control group” which strips out some of the most volatile components reported growth of 0...
Asian Markets Start a New Week on the Positive Note, Gold Finds Support Above $1270 All the major Asian indices are trading on a positive note on Monday. Gold remains well supported above $1270 marks and hovers around key resistance at $1277...