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 Country
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 is
Headlines: Markets: GBP leads, JPY lags on the day European equities higher; S&P 500 futures up 0.1% Gold flat at $1,939.05 WTI crude flat at $85.58 Bitcoin up 0.5% to $25,875 It was a quiet one in Europe today as markets are also taking a bit of a light breather with it being a US
Markets: Gold flat at $1940 US 10-year yields up 8.8 bps to 4.18% WTI crude oil up $2.25 to $85.88 S&P 500 up 0.1% USD leads, CAD lags The initial market reaction to the non-farm payrolls report was about what you would expect — USD selling, bonds bid — but then it got complicated. The
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 inflation
Fed’s Powell’s Jackson Hole speech finally came and unlike last year when the speech was short and sweet and to the point, there was little bit of something for everyone : Regarding monetary policy and rate decisions: Prepared to raise rates further if deemed necessary. The next move will be based on data. The Federal
Higher AUD/USD on the session – rising iron ore price in China a tailwind There are rumours that some Chinese banks are freezing some savings accounts – PBOC denies Bank of America S&P500 technical analysis, 4325 and 4200 as the next two major levels Fund manager says Fed Chair Powell will err on the side
Headlines: Markets: CAD leads, JPY lags on the day European equities higher; S&P 500 futures up 0.5% US 10-year yields up 4.9 bps to 4.298% Gold up 0.3% to $1,893.79 WTI crude up 1.3% to $82.30 Bitcoin flat at $26,081 It was a relatively quiet session as markets get settled into the new week. The
There was no major news coming out of the Fed chatter. Most of the focus was on interest rates, and stocks. Bitcoin fell toward technical support. Crude oil prices rebounded off of low levels and closed higher on the day, but down on the week. On Friday, if you were to look at the price
Headlines: Markets: EUR leads, AUD lags on the day European equities lower; S&P 500 futures down 0.5% US 10-year yields up 5.1 bps to 4.232% Gold down 0.3% to $1,901.09 WTI crude down 1.0% to $81.69 Bitcoin down 0.1% to $29,331 China was in the headlines once again, performing three rate cuts in one day
