Abe’s long term perspective of control on deflation
Jun 05, 2015 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views
Japanese Prime Minister Abes aim is to revitalize private sector corporate activity and ensure an exit from deflation through three policy roots. The first root is bold monetary policy that aims to direct yen...
Jun 04, 2015 15:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Energy pack is heavily down today. Weekly performance at a glance in chart table. Oil (WTI) - WTI dropped towards $58 level. Todays range $59.9 -58. WTI failed to break the dojis. Target for the downside is...
Commodities snapshot (precious & industrial)
Jun 04, 2015 14:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Metals are the worst performer today. Performance this week at a glance in chart table - Gold - Gold broke below key support today, ahead of NFP Todays range $1186-1173. Gold is still breaking into new lows. Gold...
Currency snapshot (commodity pairs)
Jun 04, 2015 14:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Dollar index trading at 95.33 (-0.04%) Strength meter (today so far) - Aussie -1.06%, Kiwi -0.23%, Loonie -0.28%. Strength meter (since last week) - Aussie +0.67%, Kiwi +0.45%, Loonie -0.36%. AUD/USD - Trading at...
Currency snapshot (major pairs)
Jun 04, 2015 14:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Dollar index trading at 95.32 (-0.06%). Strength meter (today so far) - Euro +0.26%, Franc +0.17%, Yen -0.06%, GBP +0.34% Strength meter (since last week) - Euro +2.55%, Franc +0.65%, Yen -0.24%, GBP +0.50% EUR/USD...
Yen stuck in puzzling around economic corner; Write on call ratio of EUR/JPY
Jun 04, 2015 13:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The tepid moves from BoJ left policy stagnant at the late April meeting and there is quite sensible vision of more easing right now until the next projection update in October. Domestic data continue to point out little in...
Saudi Arabia raises selling price as OPEC meet approaches
Jun 04, 2015 13:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Saudi Arabia has raised July prices for its benchmark Arab, as OPEC oil ministers are set to meet in Vienna tomorrow. The price was raised for Asian buyers, which indicates that Saudi Arabia might be facing higher...
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