Guide to today’s important data and events
Sep 21, 2015 09:26 am UTC| Insights & Views
Not many economic dockets to be released today. All with low risks associated. Data released so far China - MNI business sentiment indicator drops to 51.3 in August from 56 in July. Germany - Producer...
Sep 21, 2015 06:31 am UTC| Insights & Views
From the above table, we can observe that 1 week contacts have reduced implied volatilities on the after the much awaited feds meet which did not evidence any change in its rate policy, delta risk reversal for USDJPY is...
FxWirePro: Certain yields on EUR/JPY butterfly spreads with shorter expiry
Sep 21, 2015 06:25 am UTC| Insights & Views
The delta risk reversal of 1W for this pair is still highly negative values, this would mean that negative market sentiments for this pair have been lingering for this pair, on the contrary even if it falls, it would not...
Commodities snapshot (precious & industrial)
Sep 18, 2015 16:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Metal pack is mixed, while precious is up, industrial is in red. Performance this week at a glance in chart table - Gold - Gold gained further ground post-FOMC. Todays range - $1127-$1142 Gold is currently trading at...
Sep 18, 2015 16:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Equities are all trading in red today. Performance this week at a glance in chart table - SP 500 - SP 500 is sharply down post FOMC over profit booking and concern over global growth. Todays range 1993-1954. SP 500...
Currency snapshot (commodity pairs)
Sep 18, 2015 16:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Dollar index trading at 94.79 (+0.26%) Strength meter (today so far) - Aussie +0.49%, Kiwi +0.72%, Loonie +0.24%. Strength meter (since last week) - Aussie +1.86%, Kiwi +1.63%, Loonie +0.90%. AUD/USD - Trading at...
Sep 18, 2015 16:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Bonds across globe are the best performer after US Federal Reserve chose to wait for further improvement in inflation and abroad before pulling the trigger. US - US 2 year yield after rallying as high as 0.81%, has...
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