New Zealand’s consumer sentiment slows down in March, sentiment weakens for employment outlook

Mar 14, 2016 07:09 am UTC| Commentary

The Westpac Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment for New Zealand dropped 2.2% to 99.1 in March from 101.3 in February. This is around its average reading taken over the last six months. After the leadership...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: USD/JPY highest IVs among G20, sizeable OI at 113.80 for 1W contracts - deploy short put ladders for hedging

Mar 14, 2016 07:08 am UTC| Commentary

Japanese machinery orders have shown improved numbers MoM basis, a jump from 4.2% to 15% in February over the previous period. This weeks key data focus would be on BoJ, US Fed and Swiss monetary policies. For today,...

India’s headline CPI inflation likely unchanged in February

Mar 14, 2016 06:29 am UTC| Commentary

Indias headline CPI data for February is due to be released today. CPI is likely to be around 5.7% y/y, unchanged from January 2016s print. Februarys CPI figure is expected to come in at almost the same level as that of...

Loonie's slide masks increasing Canada's indebtedness, household debt to increase in H1

Mar 14, 2016 06:06 am UTC| Commentary

Canadas total national net worth grew 2.5% in Q4 2015 after contracting in earlier three quarters. It reached $9.7 trillion. For the entire 2015, net worth grew 6.6%. The deprecation of loonie has been the major driver of...

Fundamental Evaluation Series

Fundamentals to watch out for this week

Mar 14, 2016 06:02 am UTC| Commentary

Like last week, this week is risk heavy too. Major focus as a country will be on US. What to watch for over the coming days FOMC, BOE, BOJ, SNB Three major central banks will be announcing monetary policy...

Migrant Crisis Series

Migrant crisis: Merkel falls victim to migrant influx

Mar 14, 2016 06:02 am UTC| Commentary

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, faced one of the biggest setback against migrant crisis on Sunday, when her party Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffered drop in votes in three regional elections, while anti-immigration...

Canada’s jobless rate likely to remain stable in coming quarters

Mar 14, 2016 05:26 am UTC| Commentary

In February, Canadas employment remained virtually the same as the nation lost 2.3k jobs, as compared with the moderate decline of 5.7k in January. Canadas unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.3%. Delving into the details,...