Gold Trades Comatose, While Treasury Yields Rise Gold prices are trading largely unchanged on the day around $1257 levels amid rising treasury yields and equally comatose dollar index. Retreats from three-week high The metal backed-off from the three-week high of $1260 set yesterday...
RBA Likely to Remain ‘On Hold’ for Now – Westpac Sean Callow, Strategist at Westpac Global Strategy Group, believes the RBA will not deliver further easing in the next months. Key Quotes “The RBA held the cash rate at 2.0% in April as expected...
Oil Eases-Off Multi-Week Highs, WTI Near $ 40 Oil benchmarks on both sides of Atlantic paused its 2-day rally and dipped this Tuesday, as the traders turned cautious ahead of the API and EIA inventory reports...
UK CPI and Fed Speak in Focus Today – Danske Bank Research Team at Danske Bank, suggests that several Fed members are due to speak this week. Key Quotes “Today, it is time for Harker, Lacker and Williams to deliver their view on the economy...
Guide to Today's Important Data and Events Lots of economic dockets scheduled for today and some with high risk associated. Data released so far – Australia – National Australia Bank’s business confidence improved to 6 from 3, while business conditions improved to 12 compared to 8. Upcoming –...
ECB’s Villeroy: Low Interest Rates are Consistent with Mandate Speaking on Radio Classique, ECB governing council member and Bank of France governor Villeroy said that Europe needs a finance minister in place, besides commenting on the inflation outlook...
EUR/GBP Flirting with 0.8000, UK Data Eyed EUR/GBP is looking to stabilize in the 0.8000 area following yesterday’s sharp pullback from the 0.8100 neighbourhood...
Australian Business Confidence Surges – Deutsche Bank David Plank, Macro strategist at Deutsche Bank, notes that in Australia the NAB business survey reported a rise in confidence and conditions. Key Quotes “Business conditions rose to 12, the highest level since the global financial crisis...
UK March Headline Inflation Expected at 0.2% y/y - TDS Research Team at TDS, suggests that there were sharp cuts to many gas providers’ prices in March, but it’s not clear if the ONS will pick them up in March’s or April’s CPI release...
What COFER Data Imply for Chinese Reserves? - Nomura Research Team at Nomura, suggests that the inclusion of Chinese reserves data into COFER makes it difficult to follow what FX reserve managers are doing, while increasing expectations on the allocation of the Chinese reserves portfolio...
Asian Markets Mix Again, Gold Remains supported Above $1250 Asian markets continue to trade on mix note without providing any directions for the short term. The USD/JPY was trading 0.23% higher at 108.18 on Tuesday morning in Tokyo, having fallen as low as 107...
Negative Interest Rate Economies: Spot the Odd One Out – Deutsche Bank Oliver Harvey,Macro strategist at Deutsche Bank, suggests that Central banks’ experiment with negative interest rates continues apace this year, with the BoJ the latest to have dipped a toe in the water and the ECB edging furt...
USD Longs Fall Sharply, Now the Market is Almost Flat – Deutsche Bank Research Team at Deutsche Bank, notes that the IMM data has confirmed that investors sharply reduced their long dollar exposure, taking implied USD longs as a fraction of open interest to 4% from 8% in the previous week...
AUD: BS Shows Significant Improvement in Business Conditions and Confidence - NAB Research Team at NAB, notes that the Australia’s NAB Business Survey revealed a significant improvement in both business conditions and confidence, suggesting the domestic business environment not only remains favou...
Deutsche Bank has an interesting argument for why the Federal Reserve may not be able to raise interest rates at all this year...
Europe's economic malaise has a lot to do with its crippled banking system. Making that system more fragile seems like the wrong way to address the issue...
XAG/USD: The USD is Declining Against Safe-Haven Currencies Amid the decline in the USD against gold and the Yen last week was caused by uncertainty in the economic and financial situation in the world, the price of silver went up as well...
Brent: Fundamental Facts Caused the Rise in Oil Prices Technical analysis Fundamental factors of last week caused the rise in oil prices last week. Alternative scenario to proved to be correct. The price broke out resistance level of 41.10 and went further up 42.30 and 44...
Brent: The Trice of Oil Went Up Last Week Fundamental news of last week triggered correction in oil prices. Last Friday the prices continue to rise after the release of the data from Baker Hughes, which showed that the number of operating drilling rigs in the USA has dropped by 8 units to 354...
