[ad_1] Headlines: Markets: USD leads, GBP lags on the day European equities mixed; S&P 500 futures down 0.3% US 10-year yields flat at 4.290% Gold down 0.5% to $1,911.96 WTI crude up 0.7% to $87.88 Bitcoin up 3.8% to $26,034 It was a relatively slow and quieter session in European trading today, after all the
[ad_1] Ueda drove USD/JPY to its biggest daily loss here in 2 months: Other: Bank of Japan Governor Ueda gave an interview with Yomiuri last week. The media group published comments from the interview over the weekend. In a nutshell, Ueda said that he thinks its possible that the BOJ will have enough information by
[ad_1] Japan’s Finance Ministry’s Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Kanda spoke in the Tokyo morning. Kanda is the MoF official who will instruct the BOJ to intervene, when he judges it necessary, and is often referred to as Japan’s ‘top currency diplomat’. Kanda made some blunt comments to support the yen, the strongest warning
[ad_1] China’s Country Garden has paid coupons of USD22.5mn – avoids default European Central Bank President Lagarde speaking again today, Schnabel, de Guindos also China’s Country Garden seeking to extend payments of another 7 onshore bonds by 3 years AUD, NZD, CNH all down: China PMI disappoints, worries re Country Garden potential default Chinese developer
[ad_1] Markets: WTI crude up 43-cents to $85.98 GBP leads, USD lags US/Canada bonds and equities closed There wasn’t much to report in terms of price action in North American trading. The holidays in the US and Canada kept a lid on the market and there wasn’t any news to jar markets. The overall tone
[ad_1] Tech gremlins ate the Americas timezone wrap, I’ve included the headlines from the session here below: OK, back to the Asia session. Bank of Japan monetary policy board member Naoki Tamura spoke and dropped this into the conversation: Japan’s inflation likely to slow for time being, then accelerate moderately again Can’t rule out chance