Month: June 2018

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  Former BOJ Gov Shirakawa: Japan's growth rate doing reasonably well

  Masaaki Shirakawa is an ex-Governor of the Bank of Japan Speaking from Korea - Says Japan's growth rate doing reasonably well given demographic challenges referring to[...]
  2018-06-06 03:19:09

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  PBOC sets USD/ CNY mid-point today at 6.4208 (vs. yesterday at 6.4078)

  People's Bank of China reference rate for the onshore yuan  In Open Market operations: - PBOC inject 20 bn yuan through 7-day reverse repos -[...]
  2018-06-06 03:19:09

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  BOC's Poloz: There's no question that tariffs add to uncertainty on monetary policy

  Comments from Bank of Canada Governor Poloz on Saturday - Risk to global economy are skewed by trade, monetary policy remains data dependent - Can't[...]
  2018-06-06 03:19:09

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  FX option expiries to take note of for Wednesday 16 May 2018

  These the close by and large amount expiries for the 10am NY time cut today AUD/USD - 0.7475 AUD852m - 0.7500 AUD1.4bn USD/JPY - 110.50[...]
  2018-06-06 01:11:34

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  US dollar catches a bid early in New York trade

  Sound familiar? The US dollar is at the best levels of the day across most of the foreign exchange market as a bid emerges in[...]
  2018-06-05 23:27:12

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  Canada Q1 labor productivity -0.3% vs +0.2% prior

  Canadian first quarter productivity Business output decelerated and hours worked accelerated.
  2018-06-05 23:27:12

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  Euro and Italian markets wilt after Conte speech

  Conte makes his first speech as Prime Minister In general, markets make too much of election victories and not enough of first speeches. All kinds[...]
  2018-06-05 23:27:12

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  The US has asked some OPEC producers to raise output - report

  That doesn't sound good for oil prices Reuters reports that the US has asked some OPEC producers to oil output. They haven't requested a specific[...]
  2018-06-05 23:27:12

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  Bridgewater gets bearish

  All $160 billion of the huge hedge fund is net short equities has some interesting comments from Bridgewater warning about higher rates leading to trouble[...]
  2018-06-05 23:27:12

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  Canada gov't official. NAFTA is a trilateral agreement. Will continue to negotiate.

  Trump might not think that... A Canadian government official is on the wires saying: - NAFTA is a trilateral agreement and that Canada will continue[...]
  2018-06-05 23:25:13

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