Taiwan Jobless Rate Rises As Expected In February Taiwan's unemployment rate increased for the fourth straight month in February, in line with expectations, figures from the Directorate General of Budget Accounting and Statistics, or DGBAS, showed Tuesday...
Moody's: Credit Quality of Korean Non-Financial Corporates Stable in 2016 Moody's says the credit quality of non-financial corporates in Korea (Aa2 stable) will be stable in 2016, but that weak macroeconomic conditions will increase challenges for some sectors...
Australia Home Prices Add 0.2% In Q4 Home prices in Australia added a seasonally adjusted 0.2 percent on quarter in the fourth quarter of 2015, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday. That beat forecasts for a flat reading following the 2.0 percent increase in the third quarter...
AUD/USD Awaits Stevens AUD/USD is consolidated sub the 0.76 handle as the PBOC sets the USD/CNY mid -point today at 6.4971. AUD/USD been in gradual decline since losing the 0.76 handle again in the US, post a pop-up to test the 0.7620 offers in European trade...
Commodities in a Snapshot, Energy Higher - ANZ Analysts at ANZ noted the action the commodities sector overnight an that energy prices were stronger. Key Quotes: Brent prices pushed above USD41/bbl with the front month Brent-WTI price spread consistently trading above USD1.6/bbl...
Fed Speakers Flag Potential for Hikes - ANZ Analysts at ANZ explained that three Fed members (non-voters) flag potential for rate hikes. Key Quotes: "Williams: expects a rate cut in April and June if all else is equal and data flow continues the way he expects...
USD/CNY: Fix to be Higher by 91 Pips - Nomura Analysts at Nomura offered their model for the CNY fix today. Key Quotes: "Our model projects the fix to be higher by 91 pips from the previous fix (6.4915 from 6.4824) and higher by 57 pips from the previous spot USD/CNY official close 6.4858...
Central Bank Influence Waning Through Transparency, Credibility Talking Points: Relative monetary policy has proven one of the most productive and influential market moving themes Direct or implicit intervention carries market sway so far as transparency and credibility allow Where the PBoC is ve...
Pivot Points Hourly Last Updated: Mar 22, 4:15 am +03:00 Symbol S3 S2 S1 P R1 R2 R3 EUR/USD 1.12111 1.12229 1.12293 1.12347 1.12411 1.12465 1.12583 USD/JPY 111.45 111.733 111.835 112.016 112.118 112.299 112.582 GBP/USD 1.43492 1.436 1.43664 1.43708 1.43772 1.43816 1.43924 USD/CHF 0.96687 0...
The USD/CAD has collapsed after its parabolic rise ended in mid-January, when oil prices first showed signs of stabilisation. Since peaking at just shy of 1.4700, the Loonie has tumbled to below 1.30, hitting a low of 1.2925 last week...
U.S. Existing Home Sales Tumble in Warning Sign for Housing Market A house-for-sale sign is seen inside the Washington DC Beltway in Annandale, Virginia January 24, 2016. Reuters/Hyungwon Kang/Files...
Brexit Uncertainties Unlikely to Cause Sharp Sell-Off in Cee Assets While Emerging Markets in 3Q15 recorded the strongest portfolio capital outflows since 2008, CEE managed to avoid heavy sell-offs...
U.S. Existing Home Sales Pull Back Much More Than Expected In February After reaching their highest annual rate in six months in January, existing home sales in the U.S...
WTI Survives Above $41.00 Crude oil prices have managed to leave behind the initial offered tone, recovering the area of highs above the $41.00 mark...
The US dollar is beginning the week mostly firmer against the major and emerging market currencies. The Japanese yen, where local markets were closed for the spring equinox is up slightly, and the Australian dollar turned higher in the European session...
Swedish Companies More Optimistic On Economy: Riksbank Survey Swedish companies are now more optimistic about the economic situation though they facing difficulties in raising prices, results of the Riksbank's February 2016 Business Survey showed Monday...
Australian Dollar Off Early Lows Against Most Majors The Australian dollar came off from its early lows against most major counterparts in European trading on Monday. The aussie recovered to 0.7626 against the greenback and 85.07 against the yen, off early 4-day low of 0...
Croatia Retail Sales Fall For First Time In 5 Months Croatia's retail sales decreased at the start of the year, after rising in the previous four months, figures from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics showed Monday. Retail sales volume dropped a seasonally and working-day-adjusted 0...
UK: Politics is Going to be More Important than Economics - SocGen Kit Juckes, Research Analyst at Societe Generale, suggests that the politics is going to be more important than economics for the next three months in the UK and so far, both major political parties seem pretty keen on tearing the...