Chinese equities gained the most in a week after the government signaled it will delay tightening bank capital rules and investors speculated monetary policy would be eased to prevent Europe’s debt crisis from harming the economy. Further China’s biggest auto-dealer association, asked Car producers to scale back their sales targets or sweeten incentives as the […]
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Yesterday morning, the USD/JPY cross rate came under moderate pressure as the decline of EUR/USD and EUR/JPY weighed on the headline pair. USD/JPY reached an intraday low at 78.11 early Europe and settled slightly above that level during the morning session in Europe. In the afternoon trade, the yen ‘enjoyed’ quite a substantial setback on
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On Tuesday there was little in the way of news flow, except of the G7 emergency teleconference, which yielded very little in the way of results or news. And there was even less on the eco calendar. The fundamentals affecting the markets on Tuesday were: Australia GDP grows 1.3%, more than twice estimates Australia’s economy
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During this morning’s session crude oil futures prices are trading above $84.73/bbl in electronic trading. Most of the Asian equities are up near 1 percent on speculation of positive expectation from ease of debt crisis in Euro-zone. Most importantly, market will be eyeing on G-7 meet, where sign of heightened global alarm about strains in
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On Monday, London markets were closed. However, even with no UK economic news on the screens, trading in the EUR/GBP cross rate was quite interesting. The pair was seen in the high 0.80 area during the morning session in Europe. A new up leg in the euro during the US trading hours also pushed EUR/GBP
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European markets will lead global influences again on four main counts. First, German releases could be the most important development in the eurozone as consensus expects each of factory orders, industrial production and exports to take a step backward from solid gains the prior month. If correct, then that would stoke renewed fears about the
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Gold futures prices would have taken a pause at the Globex skidding 0.28% from the weekly closing while, the Asian shares slid as investors gathered worries from the terrible jobs data released last Friday, and a weak Chinese PMI pressurized the stocks in early morning. Euro as well knocked down once again against the dollar
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Treasury yields hit their lowest in hundreds of years and global stocks dropped towards 2012 lows on Friday, as investors scrambled for lifelines on worries about Spain’s parlous finances and China’s growth outlook. US stock index futures fell sharply as job growth in May was the weakest in a year and employers added far fewer
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During early Asian session crude oil futures prices are hovering below $86.20/bbl with fall of more than 0.30 percent in electronic platform. Oil price are under pressure on concern from major oil consuming nation like China. PMI manufacturing index for the month of May declined more than estimates and prior month levels. Likewise, contraction in
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Bonds continued their march to lower yields today. US 10’s now yield 1.56%, UK 10’s yield 1.56%, German 10’s yield 1.2%… and Spanish 10’s yield 6.5%. The extent to which European capital is cycling out of Spanish (and to a lesser extent Italian) paper and into German paper is extreme. German bonds that traded with
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