Day: January 4, 2019

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  Early heads up for some chunky forex option expiries on Friday

  FX options expiring today are here: Coming up on Friday December 7: EUR/USD USD/JPY, USD amounts  AUD/USD (ps, this also, for December 10 on AUD/USD: 0.7300[...]
  2019-01-04 15:48:03

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  Goldman Sachs have cut their Federal Reserve rate hike forecast for 2019 again

  As late as early December Goldman Sachs were predicting four Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) interest rate rises in 2019 Only a few weeks ago[...]
  2019-01-04 11:11:03

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  2019 will bring more Fed Chair unscripted remarks than ever before. Peachy.

  In a new development for 2019 each Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting is to be followed by a news conference from Chair Jerome Powell.[...]
  2019-01-04 11:11:03

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  ECB's Lautenschlaeger sees possible rate hike next year on inflation

  ECB executive board member, Sabine Lautenschlaeger, spoke in an interview with Deustchlandfunk radio over the weekend - Hopes and expects that there will be a[...]
  2019-01-04 11:11:03

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  ECB's Knot says it is too early to speculate on ECB jobs before EU elections

  Comments by ECB member Klaas Knot European Parliament elections in May could play a big part Apart from Draghi's post, Peter Praet will also be[...]
  2019-01-04 11:11:03

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  ECB's Knot: Core inflation still isn't showing "any signs of life"

  Further comments by ECB member Klaas Knot - No reason to expect more than a little slowing of growth - QE remains in the toolbox,[...]
  2019-01-04 11:11:03

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  PIMCO on the US economy … "The market is predicting a (Fed) rate cut …"

  This an ICYMI from the folks at and a US economic slowing Bloomberg, comments on Federal Reserve The piece is based on comments from Tony Crescenzi,[...]
  2019-01-04 11:09:09

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  Expect to hear something from the Bank of Japan today as they respond to the FX flash crash

  Japanese officials will not be happy about this You can almost guarantee there will be a report later saying that officials from the Bank of[...]
  2019-01-04 11:09:09

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  PBOC sets USD/ CNY central rate at 6.8631 (vs. yesterday at 6.8482)

  People's Bank of China onshore yuan reference rate  In Open Market operations - PBOC injects 40bn yuan via 7-day reverse repos - PBOC injects 20bn[...]
  2019-01-04 11:09:09

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  Heads up for Fed Chair Powell speaking this week (Friday)

  Chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell is speaking on 4 January 2019  - It will be in the format of a joint interview (with[...]
  2019-01-04 11:09:09

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