Dollar suffers another round off selloff after terribly poor ADP job data, which showed only 27k growth in May. 10-year yield also takes a steep dive breaching Monday's low at 2.081. Gold breaks 1344 and is on track to take on 1346.71 resistance. The poor data adds to speculation...
Talks of Fed rate cut intensified overnight after comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Markets are now even pricing in 90% of a cut by September FOMC meeting. US stocks rebounded strongly with DOW closed up 512.40 pts or 2.06%. Positive sentiments carried through to Asia will broad based...
While Dollar has been pressured for most of the day, receding risk aversion seems to be giving in a hand in early US session. The greenback is riding on recovery in both US yield and stocks and trades mildly higher. Adding to that, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans maintains...
Dollar suffered another round of selloff this week and remains broadly weak today. Free fall in treasury yields continued overnight with 10-year yield closing at 2.081, down -0.061. 2% handle is now looking vulnerable with current downside acceleration. Tech stocks were hit hard with NASDAQ lost -1.61%, on news...
Dollar weakens broadly today as markets are turning their focuses to manufacturing from the US. Final reading of Markit PMI shouldn't deviate much from the first print 50.6. Meanwhile, ISM manufacturing could probably how confidence turned after last round of trade war escalation with China. Even if the greenback...
Dollar opened the week mildly lower but appears to have found some footing in early European session. Trump is fighting trade wars on two fronts, at least. On the one hand, China has cleared stated its position for not backing down on some core issues, with a white paper...
Free fall in major government yields extended, and accelerated last week. Meanwhile, it seemed that stocks investors finally woke up with sharply deteriorating sentiments. Major indices staged steep decline as risk aversion heightened. The first factor being the "ever-present" US-China trade tensions. Hard-line rhetorics from official media blossomed after...
Global financial markets are rocked by Trump's decision to use tariffs as a way to force Mexico to solve border security crisis of the US. 5% tariffs will be imposed in all Mexico imports to US starting June 10, then "gradually" as Trump claimed, go up to 25% on...
Risk aversion intensifies again today as Trump uses his one old tricky in tariffs again, but turned to Mexico. 5% tariffs will be imposed on all Mexican imports on June 10, and "gradually" move up to 25% in less than 4 months time if Mexico doesn't help on border...
Dollar trades generally higher today as risk markets stabilized, partly helped by recovery in treasury yields too. Economic data from US generally matched expectations. Markets also shrugged off repeated comments from US and China regarding trade war. Though, at the time of writing, Canadian Dollar is the strongest one,...
Risk sentiments stabilized somewhat in Asian session today. While major Asian indices are down, losses are so far limited. Late buying in the US overnight argues that the markets are not in a crash yet despite all the talks on trade war escalation. DOW has indeed reached as low...
Risk aversion stays in the global financial markets today but it's not in the most intense state yet. A trigger for selloff in stocks and decline in yield is China's threat to squeeze supply of rare earths to the US as part of a countermeasures in trade war. However,...
Yen and Swiss Franc are finally showing some strength today. There was no special escalation in US-China relationship as the former refrained from naming the latter as currency manipulator. But recovery attempts in stocks were rather short lived. Selloff in stocks is in tandem with free fall in treasury...
The forex markets are rather mixed today. Italy's budget clash with EU is clearly a concern of investors. Markets are anticipating the tension between Rome and Brussels to intensify with a penalty on breach of EU fiscal rules. Italian 10-year yield jumps sharply higher today while German 10-year yield...
The forex markets are generally steady in Asian session today. Risk sentiments firmed up mildly in Asia with gains seen in major indices. In particular, China's Shanghai SSE is back above 2900 handle with around 0.9% gain. The moves are reflect in strength in Australian, New Zealand and Canadian...
After some initial weakness, Dollar surges broadly today after Trump admitted that he's not ready to make a deal with China yet. That overturned his repeated comments that a deal could happen soon. Instead, Trump opts for more verbal threats and warned tariffs could go up very substantially and...
Sterling was the weakest one last week as it suffered persistent selloff ahead of UK Prime Minister Theresa May's announcement on resignation. The Pound has indeed stabilized since then after the speculation was realized. Without May, the Brexit path ahead becomes even more uncertain. The key lies on who...
News from the UK catch most headline today as, finally, Prime Minister Theresa May announced to resign. Pound's reaction is generally softer but selloff is so far limited. Sterling has been under much selling pressure up to today's announcement and thus, the decision was well priced in. Now, the...
Dollar's rally attempt faltered overnight as dragged down by steep decline in treasury yields. Dollar index did hit new high at 98.37 but closed sharply lower at 97.85. 10-year yield dropped -0.097 to close at 2.296, just inch above day low at 2.294. Concerns over prolonged US-China trade war...
Global markets are back is heavy risk-off mode today as US-China tensions keep on escalating. Words from both sides suggest that neither one is going to back down from the current stance and there is no chance of returning to the table any time soon. More importantly, it's seems...