Key Points This Week
Market Overview:
Key Points:
- Non-Farm Payrolls
- EU/US Inflation
- China/German/US/Australia/US Trade Data
- RBA/Bank of Canada Rate Decisions
- Jackson Hole Symposium/BRICS Summit
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Market Overview:
Key Points:
Market Overview The division between the US economy and the rest of the developed world is widening. The global growth gap sees the US expanding at a rate of 6.0% per year. In comparison- global growth has declined in the first part of the year continuing the downtrend which started last year. The world’s biggest…
Monday February 12th All Day JPY Bank Holiday All Day CNY Bank Holiday Tuesday February 13th 7:00am GBP BOE Gov Bailey Speaks All Day CNY Bank Holiday 3:00pm NZD Inflation Expectations q/q Previous 2.76% 8:00pm GBP Claimant Count Change Forecast 15.2K Previous 11.7K Wednesday February 14th 2:30am USD Core CPI m/m Forecast 0.30% Previous 0.30%…
Worldwide coronavirus cases surpasses 8M with over 435,000 deaths officially reported. The Japanese Yen closed the week earning the top spot, beating out all other major currencies as “risk trade action” fades and sends investors and traders away from risk assets. We also saw better economic data out in Japan potentially supporting the Yen over…
RBA and Melbourne Cup Day. The RBA is expected to hike interest rates from 4.10% to 4.35% later today after a 4-meeting pause. The New Zealand Dollar (NZD), Australian Dollar (AUD) cross has been bouncing around recent levels circa 0.9215 (1.0850) this week after falling to 0.9140 (1.0940) last week as risk flow benefited the…
The New Zealand Dollar (NZD) has had a bumper week against the British Pound (GBP) rising from the 0.4565 (2.1900) level Monday to post 0.4680 (2.1380) this morning reversing nearly 2 weeks of poor performances. The Pound has struggled with the latest release of the new government’s public finances. The budget gap is larger than…
Australia The Australian Dollar (AUD) has largely been range bound over the week against the major pairs lacking any real direction. The US FOMC rate meeting Thursday morning saw the Australian Dollar move north against the US Dollar (USD) coming off a 3 month low of 0.7660 through to 0.7760 on a surging Dollar (USD). At the…