Global Central Banks Slowed Gold Purchases in February - WGC The latest data from the World Gold Council (WGC) showed that the global central banks, barring the Chinese and Russian, slowed their gold purchases in February...
SGD: MAS Preview, No Change but Market Under-Prices Easing Risk - ANZ Khoon Goh, Senior FX Strategist at ANZ Research, expects MAS to maintain their current policy settings at the April review...
Doves Flying High for FOMC – Investec Research Team at Investec, suggests that the minutes showed the FOMC to be split in their views, with the doves (led by Chair Yellen) winning out...
US: No Consensus from Within - ING James Smith, Economist at ING, suggests that the latest Fed minutes show that a range of views persist within the FOMC, which suggests little prospect of a near-term rate hike...
Oil in Global Economy Series: Producers Need to Focus on India, Prize of Next Decade India topped the list of world’s best performing economy this year, taking over China in growth rate...
Russian Bonds Mixed on World Bank Report, Firm Oil Prices The Russian bonds traded mixed on Thursday after World Bank cuts Russia growth forecasts and sees 1.9% GDP fall in 2016...
European Stocks Rise for Second Day Stock markets across Europe rose for the second day on the back of rally in energy shares and drug makers. At the time of writing, Stoxx 50 index was up 0.10%. Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC were up 0.20% and 0.36% respectively. UK’s mining heavy FTSE was up 0...
USD Could Slip Towards 93.00/92.50 – Westpac Richard Franulovich, Strategist at Westpac, sees the decline in the dollar could extend to the 92.50/93.00 area...
Oil: Bucked the Downtrend and Showed Some Signs of Life - Rabobank Stefan Koopman, Market Economist at Rabobank, notes that oil bucked the downward trend and showed some signs of life...
Japan: Stronger Yen Testing Japanese Policymakers – MUFG Lee Hardman, Currency Analyst at MUFG, notes that the yen has continued to strengthen in the Asian trading resulting in USD/JPY falling below levels which prevailed prior to the BoJ’s decision to extend QQE on the 31st October 2014...
Brexit Blues Taking its Toll on UK Pound - Rabobank Stefan Koopman, Market Economist at Rabobank, notes that the Pound sterling briefly fell to an almost two-year low of 0.81 against the euro. Key Quotes “Also on a tradeweighted basis, the currency hit levels last seen in November 2013...
Eurozone: Doors Open for a TLTRO III Next Year - SocGen Anatoli Annenkov, Research Analyst at Societe Generale, suggests that of the latest measures taken by the ECB, the new TLTRO II is the most innovative, with the ECB offering to lend at a negative interest rate...
The Federal Reserve should be patient and cautious about raising short-term interest rates, but should nevertheless increase them in a sustained way, Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said on Wednesday...
JGB's Mixed on Firm Oil Prices, Dovish FOMC The Japanese government debt instrument traded mixed on Thursday after reading dovish FOMC meeting minutes and firm crude oil prices. The benchmark 10-year bonds yield, which is inversely proportional to bond price rose 1.82 pct to -0...
CAD Shorts Cut, AUD Longs Increased – Deutsche Bank Research Team at Deutsche Bank, lists down the commitments of traders report for the week ended on Tuesday, March 29, 2016. Key Quotes “Interest Rates: Speculators increased their net shorts in Eurodollar and Treasury futures by $2...
BAML’s Yamada Says BOJ Intervention Possible at 105 but More Likely at 100 BAML‘s fx strategist Yamada was on the wires via Bloomberg, commenting on the likely intervention in the fx market to curb a stronger yen...
China’s Foreign Reserves Data: What is Coming Your Way? – ING China’s March foreign reserves data is due today and the consensus forecast is $3.196 trillion, which would be a negligible $6.3 billion decline from February...
Former Japan’s Top FX Diplomat: Tokyo Unlikely to Intervene to Stem Yen Rises Naoyuki Shinohara, an ex-IMF deputy chief and formerly Japan's top currency diplomat crossed the wires last minutes, noting that the Japanese government intervention is unlikely in the fx market to curb a stronger yen...
Asian Stocks Trade Mixed Amid Stronger Yen and Oil Rebound The stocks on the Asian bourses stalled the rebound and now pare gains as the Japanese stocks turned negative, weighed heavily by the ongoing rise in the yen...
About time Kuroda weighed in, its been a few hours since we've heard from him • Japan's economy continues to recover moderately as a trend despite some signs of weaknesses in exports, output • Japan's economy expected to expand moderately as a trend • Consumer inflation likely to hover around zer...
