FxWirePro: EUR vols priced at premium as NBP stays pat, Short EURPLN and long EURUSD option spreads using OTM calls - Rationale two-folded

Oct 03, 2018 14:00 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views

In todays NBP meeting, just like the NBR, has been a status quo event. There had been some likelihood earlier that the Polish central bank might change its rhetoric or assessment because inflation was beginning to...

Monetary Authority of Singapore likely to stand pat at next week’s policy meeting, says OCBC Bank

Oct 03, 2018 09:00 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is expected to stand pat at next weeks MPS (Monetary Policy Statement), although the odds only marginally favour this base case scenario, according to the latest research report...

RBA monetary policy: Assessing future bias

Oct 02, 2018 06:19 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) chose to keep the interest rate unchanged at 1.5 percent at todays policy meeting. Lets look at the details of policy announcement to assess the bias of RBA. Key highlights RBA...

RBA rate decision preview

Oct 02, 2018 03:53 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will announce its monetary policy decisions tomorrow at 4:30 GMT. Economy at a glance The economy is growing at 3.4 percent y/y as of Q2 2018 compared to 4.3 percent in early 2012....

FxWirePro: Glimpse at Emerging Asian central banks and EMFX vols

Oct 01, 2018 14:32 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views

Recently, central banks in Indonesia and the Philippines delivered a 25bps and 50bps rate hike respectively, suggesting that the policy makers are keen to narrow the rates spread against the Fed as capital outflow is an...

FxWirePro: Under-pricing and unbiased hedging weigh on bullion markets despite hawkish Fed's stance

Oct 01, 2018 12:31 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views

Bullish neutral risk reversals are observed in golds OTC hedging market, while positively skewed IVs of XAUUSD have been stretched out on either side. This is interpreted as the hedgers bid for both OTM calls and OTM put...

FxWirePro: How to tackle bearish Swedish Krona on central banks of Scandis? Uphold NOK/SEK in cash and square-off EUR/SEK seagull

Oct 01, 2018 10:23 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views

This write-up emphasizes on the execution and functioning of the two advocated Scandi trades long EURSEK establishing a bearish seagull options strategy and long NOKSEK outright has been weak in the last...