Why equities under heavy siege in spite of FED rate hold
Sep 18, 2015 12:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views
After cheerful Asia, equities are under heavy stress globally in European hours and heading into North America, in spite of FED signaled pause. This move has baffled many in the market, who expected equities to cheer up...
Chinese properties are new safe haven, says Commerzbank
Sep 18, 2015 11:33 am UTC| Insights & Views
According to Commerzbank, Chinese property market is shining with safe haven flows from none other than Chinese investors as equities are under heavy downside pressure. Chinas benchmark stock index, Shanghai composite has...
FxWirePro: Short term call – Sell Pound against Yen, targeting 182.5 area
Sep 18, 2015 10:46 am UTC| Insights & Views
Pound has risen a lot after Employment report especially surprised to the upside this week, which was followed by hawkish comments from Bank of Englands (BOE), Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in parliamentary...
Ramifications of FOMC decision on treasury yields, PCE and other macros
Sep 18, 2015 10:17 am UTC| Insights & Views
In the repercussion of the much-awaited Feds meeting outcome fixed income trades with a better tone. US Treasuries are consolidating their post-meeting gains, fortified by both press conference comments by Fed Chair,...
FOMC rate decision – all about China, EM and noflation
Sep 18, 2015 10:16 am UTC| Insights & Views
Last night Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) refrained from hiking rates by 25 basis as was anticipated by quite large portion of financial world. Economists and market participants were well divided. So what caused...
FxWirePro: Dollar loses gains vs sterling owing to FOMC, range persistence on table
Sep 18, 2015 10:06 am UTC| Insights & Views
Last nights much awaited FOMC rate decision to leave its policy rate target range unchanged at 0-0.25% will continue to resound around the markets. However, while market expectations were confirmed, a majority of FOMC...
China’s property market – is worst over?
Sep 18, 2015 09:42 am UTC| Insights & Views
Is Chinas ravaged property market heading for a turnaround - it is quite difficult to say for sure standing at this points but further evidence from data suggests that decline is definitely slowing down even if improvement...
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