Month: April 2018

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  New Zealand Card Spending for March: Retail +1.0% m/m (expected +0.5%)

  Retail +1.0% m/m, for a beat on the month Total +0.7% m/m Card spending is used as the main indicator for monthly retail sales data[...]
  2018-04-12 07:26:07

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  UK data - RICS House Price balance ( March): 0% (expected 2%)

  Yes, zero change on the month for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) monthly house price balance survey - expected was +2% - prior[...]
  2018-04-12 07:26:07

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  More data: UK manufacturers report fastest growth in export sales, orders since Q2 2014

  Data via the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) quarterly economic survey More: BCC economist Suren Thiru BCC's director-general, Adam Marshall --- BCC survey
  2018-04-12 07:26:07

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  Confirmed - trilateral summit (South Korea, China & Japan) will be held in Japan in May

  The date is yet to be set for the meeting between these three big neighbours  A hot topic will be denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.[...]
  2018-04-12 07:26:07

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  Australian home loans data due soon – preview

  Due at 0130GMT from Australia, Housing finance data for February This preview now via Westpac --- Given all the cross-currents at play for the AUD[...]
  2018-04-12 07:26:07

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  KRW - South Korea in talks with US Mnuchin over FX policy

  Phone talks between the SK fin min and US Treas Sec Mnuchin - Over fx policy The US will release its latest currency manipulator report[...]
  2018-04-12 07:26:07

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  Japan data - Money stock for March

  Data released from Japan for the money stock and the weekly international seucrities flows Not that its going to be of much relevance for the[...]
  2018-04-12 07:26:07

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  Italian air force flight seen over eastern Mediterranean

  Just noting this, adding it to the list of countries seen moving assets  - US, UK, France - now Italy The flight spotted heading towards[...]
  2018-04-12 07:26:07

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  Fed's Kaplan: Base case is the Fed should increase rates 3 times this year

  More comments by Dallas Fed head Robert Kaplan as he speaks in China It's the same thing that he emphasised in his talk earlier in[...]
  2018-04-12 07:17:42

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  Fed's Kaplan says he's optimistic many of US-China suggested trade tariffs will not be implemented

  US Fed's Kaplan speaking to reporters in Beijing 10 April - optimistic and hopeful  - it's clearly in the interests of both countries to have[...]
  2018-04-12 07:17:42

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