Month: January 2018

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  The Japanese Nikkei made a big break today. What it means for USD/JPY

  It was the first trading day of 2018 in Japan New Years holidays ended and Japanese traders came back to the office in a good[...]
  2018-01-08 18:23:16

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  (2) Heads up (are better than 1) for very large FX option expiries in EUR/USD

  I posted this last week on forex option expiries in the euro due this week, so ICYMI: These coming up in EUR/USD on  January 9[...]
  2018-01-08 08:47:10

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  Option expiries of size due today, Monday 08 January 2018

  These are due to expire at 10am new York time today - EUR/USD, GBP/USD  - none of significance - USD/JPY, strike at 112.00 for 522 mio[...]
  2018-01-08 08:47:10

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  A really early heads up preview on Australian retail sales data due this week

  Consumer spending has been a disappointing area for the Australia economy, weighed upon by slow wage growth Later this week we get November retail sales[...]
  2018-01-08 08:47:10

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  Barclays on "the perils of following consensus"

  Barclays says to watch out for further badn wagon jumping in the consensus trades: Volatility-adjusted weekly returns show that the performances of consensus trades are[...]
  2018-01-08 08:47:10

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  After the KRW move its worth checking out Barclays SGD 'trade of the week'

  Barclays on Singapore and their 'Trade for the week ahead': This call seems even better after the move in the Korean won earlier: It looks[...]
  2018-01-08 08:47:10

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  Australia govmt forecasts 20% iron ore price drop in 2018

  The Department of Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (which I guess encompasses digging rocks out of the ground) Expects iron ore prices to average $51.50[...]
  2018-01-08 08:47:05

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  ForexLive Asia FX news wrap: Korean won a mover

  Forex news for Asia trading Monday 8 January 2018 Weekend: The Korean won was a big mover today, with rumours of Bank of Korea intervention[...]
  2018-01-08 08:47:05

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  Italian election - Berlusconi Could End Up Holding the Aces

  I posted earlier on the Italian election, and things will hot up as we approach March 4 Bloomberg with this now ... Link is here for[...]
  2018-01-08 08:47:05

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  South Korea's regulator carrying out inspections on banks' handling of virtual currency trading accounts

  News via Reuters It is said that they are carrying out field inspections of six banks regarding handling of virtual currency trading accounts. And that[...]
  2018-01-08 08:47:05

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