Month: April 2018

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  Fed's Harker: Labor market fairly tight

  Harker in Philadelphia No real comments on rates or the economic outlook. He warned that student loan debt could burden new workers and dissuade others[...]
  2018-04-17 19:25:08

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  Fed's Williams says he doesn't expect inverted yield curve in next few years

  More from Williams Don't look now but 10s-30s is at 18 bps and 2s-30s is at just 62 bps. And Williams is talking about 75[...]
  2018-04-17 19:25:08

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  EURCHF tests the underside of the broken trend line. The 1.2000 level eyed.

  And moves to within 100 pips of the SNB depeg level of 1.2000 Way back in January 2015, the SNB surprised the market and pulled[...]
  2018-04-17 19:25:08

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  European stocks end with solid gains today.

  German Dax up big despite weak ZEW economic sentiment index today The German ZEW economic sentiment index came in weaker than expectations, but that did[...]
  2018-04-17 19:25:08

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  USD/CAD nears a fresh two-month low but BOC looms

  USD/CAD is hanging by a thread USD/CAD has consolidated for the past five days after breaking down last week. Now the pair looks like it's[...]
  2018-04-17 19:25:08

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  BOJ's Amamiya says that central banks should be more attentive to innovation

  BOJ deputy governor Amamiya is speaking on fintech Nothing else from Amamiya. He didn't mention anything on monetary policy, but offered little else in terms[...]
  2018-04-17 19:17:17

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  Fed's Kashkari sees fiscal stimulus supporting gradual rate hikes

  Comments by Minneapolis Fed head Neel Kashkari via Wall St Journal interview The full interview transcript can be found (may be gated). here Nothing that[...]
  2018-04-17 19:17:17

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  HKMA intervenes in the market again, buys HK$3.59 billion

  HKMA defends the currency peg once again I touched a little bit on this earlier in the day . And the central bank is continuing[...]
  2018-04-17 19:17:17

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  BOJ's Wakatabe says no major disruption to Japan's financial intermediation

  Comments by BOJ deputy governor Wakatabe His comments here are mainly touching on Japanese regional banks and their profitability.
  2018-04-17 19:17:17

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  More from Wakatabe: Raising rates prematurely would push Japan back to recession

  Further comments by BOJ deputy governor Wakatabe as he speaks in parliament Nothing more from Wakatabe. Mainly a repeat of the BOJ's usual comments.
  2018-04-17 19:17:17

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