Month: June 2018

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  The JPY is the strongest and the AUD as NA traders enter for the day.

  The USD is trading higher As North American traders enter the fray, the JPY is the strongest while the AUD is the weakest.  Risk off? [...]
  2018-06-12 06:21:09

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  FX option expiries to note for Friday 18 May 2018

  At the 10am NY time cut today EUR/USD - 1.1800 EUR 1.9bn - 1.1900 866m USD/JPY - 110.00 USD 1.4bn GBP/USD - 1.3600 GBP 227m[...]
  2018-06-12 02:52:07

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  Heads up for large option expiries to come early next week

  I posted earlier on the TGIF expiries for today: FX option expiries to note for Friday 18 May 2018 Coming up after we weekend: Monday[...]
  2018-06-12 02:52:07

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  ECB's Praet says signals showing convergence of inflation towards target have improved

  ECB chief economist Peter Praet comments in Berlin If anything, he's hinting that the ECB is confident that inflation will move towards its target (and[...]
  2018-06-11 22:10:39

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  ECB's Praet says market expectation for QE end this year will be noted for discussion

  Further comments by ECB chief economist Peter Praet Well, my view is that the central bank would announce an end to QE either in June[...]
  2018-06-11 22:10:39

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  PBOC sets USD/ CNY reference rate for today at 6.4040 (vs. yesterday at 6.4157)

  Earlier news re People's Bank of China moves (or potential moves I should say):  -    In Open Market operations, PBOC has not conducted RRs[...]
  2018-06-11 22:10:39

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  PBOC conducts MLF: 463bn yuan, one year, 3.3%

  The People's Bank of China had skipped OMOs earlier today But a fund injection now via the medium term lending facility More: - Injects 463bn yuan[...]
  2018-06-11 22:10:39

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  Poor economic data once again the bane for sterling

  GBP/USD trades to a session low of 1.3365 after the release of factory output data The figures are rather poor and continues to highlight the[...]
  2018-06-11 19:28:58

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  Markets Focusing on Central Banks

  Learn to trade Central Bank decisions The end of May was marked by political turbulence in Italy, which caused severe pressure on the Euro. The[...]
  2018-06-11 19:28:58

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  Cable bulls cling on to 200-hour moving average for support

  GBP/USD is testing the key level at the moment A lot of push and pull has been occurring in the pair after the poor UK[...]
  2018-06-11 19:28:58

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