Yen continues to trade as the weakest one for today, followed by Swiss Franc. Meanwhile Dollar pares back some again as markets await US consumer inflation release later today, which could see headline CPI accelerated to 2.9% yoy.
Global equities stage a strong rebound today as the impact of trade war escalation faded. Investors are getting tired of the noises from the US and China. Some attributed the chance of resuming negotiation between US and China. But we’re don’t buy into this as Trump is clear with what he’s doing. Negotiation has started and ended abruptly, showing no intention to continue. And, just as Trump is blasting NATO allies on spending again today after the latters promised to increase it. It’s clear to the objective eyes whether one is pushing for reforms or finding excuses to quit, and blame the others for his decision.
Anyway, at the time of writing, DAX is up 0.35%, CAC is up 0.39% while FTSE is up 0.68%. Earlier today, Nikkei closed up 1.17%, Hong Kong HSI rose 0.60%, Singapore Strait Times rose 0.12%.
More importantly, China Shanghai SSE rose 2.16% to close at 2837.66, back above 2800 handle. The development indicates certain calmness in the markets despite this week’s trade war escalation. And it affirmed the view of strong support between 2016 low at 2638.3 and 2700 psychological level. The rebound from 2691.02 is in progress and break of 2848.37 will extend it to 55 day EMA now at 2984.49. For now, we’re seeing no chance of breakthrough 3000 psychological level. But such near term development is enough to stabilize the Asian markets, which suffered most last week.
