Month: June 2018

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  Another Australian services PMI (2nd today): 55.9 (from 55.2 prior)

  CBA / Markit services PMI for May for Australia  Services 55.9 - prior 55.2 Composite 55.6 - prior 55.3 'Key finding': Australia's services activity continued[...]
  2018-06-05 07:26:49

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  Japan Nikkei/Markit PMIs (May): Services 51.0 (prior 52.5), Composite 51.7 (prior 53.1)

  Key points highlighted by Markit: - Backlogs of work fall amid new order growth slowdown - Firms continue to expand workforce numbers - Output price[...]
  2018-06-05 07:25:07

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  Japan data recap for today - driving the yen?

  We have had a couple of Japanese data items already today: - (shrank for the 3rd consecutive month running in April)  Neither of these argue[...]
  2018-06-05 07:25:07

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  Forex option expiries for Tuesday 5 June 2018

  Notable option expiry for the 10am NY time cut today EUR/USD - 1.1675 EUR amount 688m - 1.1700 775m - 1.1725 1.1bn - 1.1750 2.0bn[...]
  2018-06-05 07:25:07

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  Australia Balance of Payments Current Account for Q1: AUD -10.5bn (vs. exp AUD -9.9bn)

  Australia Balance of Payments Current Account for Q1: AUD -10.5bn  - expected AUD -9.9bn, prior AUD -14.7bn, revised from -14.0bn Net exports 0.3% (as a[...]
  2018-06-05 07:25:07

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  North Korea has asked Trump for investment in tourism. Mar-a-Lago Wonsan?

  Kim Jong Un's envoy asked President Trump to support tourism development - NK says it want such investment to include casinos - In Wonsan (a[...]
  2018-06-05 07:25:07

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  Japan data:April Overall household spending -1.3% y/y(expected +0.8%)

  Not a great indicator for the BOJ and administration …. - Overall household spending -1.6% m/m And -1.6% y/y (expected +0.8% y/y, prior -0.7%) While[...]
  2018-06-05 07:25:07

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  Australian weekly consumer sentiment indicator falls again

  Australia weekly consumer confidence from ANZ / Roy Morgan comes in at 116.5 Persistently high petrol prices is a negative for consumer sentiment. 
  2018-06-05 07:25:07

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  UK data: Big jump for the May like-for-like sales: +2.8% y/y (vs. -4.2% prior)

  ArticleBody British Retail Consortium (BRC) data for May 2018, Like for like sales +2.8% y/y - prior -4.2% Total retail sales values jumped+4.1y/y - vs.[...]
  2018-06-05 07:25:07

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  More UK data - payment card data for May shows huge retail spending increase

  Barclaycard (the credit and debit card division of Barclays): data - Its measure of consumer spending +5.1 y/y in May - Biggest increase in 13[...]
  2018-06-05 07:25:07

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