FxWirePro: How Does Interest Rate Derivatives Look Like After January FOMC Minutes?
Feb 25, 2019 12:40 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
The US markets came back to life following the release of the January FOMC minutes, and OIS briefly softened its inversion into early December. 2019s rebound in risky assets has left the risks around LDI hedgers roughly...
Feb 25, 2019 10:20 am UTC| Research & Analysis
We had expressed surprise that GBP had not rallied even though the subjective probability of a disruptive no-deal Brexit had receded materially over the prior month. This anomaly was corrected with a vengeance in January...
FxWirePro: Mild shift in Sterling’s OTC sentiments – Diagonal Debit Spreads for Optimized hedging
Feb 25, 2019 07:52 am UTC| Research & Analysis
Cables prices are trying to break down although intra-day price action remains very choppy. A move through 1.1270 would add further conviction to our view that prices should re-test and potentially break the previous...
FxWirePro: Old Wine In The New Bottle, If Hedging Sterling Awful, Swiss franc Instrumental
Feb 22, 2019 13:03 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Before we run you through the core part of this write-up, lets just quickly glance at the bearish and bullish scenarios of Swiss franc: Bearish CHF Scenarios: 1) No Brexit (revocation of Article 50 and/or a second...
Feb 22, 2019 12:28 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
Overnight the Australian government rejected reports that in some Chinese ports coal imports were not being handled at all or only with delays. It was unable to make AUD retrace yesterdays losses with these comments. The...
FxWirePro: Long USD/CHF Call Butterfly Spreads Best Suitable on Sluggish IVs and Well-Balanced Skews
Feb 22, 2019 11:52 am UTC| Research & Analysis
We have upgraded the risk bias around the forecasts from CHF negative to neutral. The pair (USDCHF) has been oscillating between 1.0060 0.9560 levels from the last couple of months. This long-lasting tight range-bounded...
IBM's Chief of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Sets Mammoth Targets for Bitcoin Price
Feb 22, 2019 07:50 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views Commentary
Companies like IBM have time and again laid emphasis on the facts of cryptocurrency prospects and have promoted the integration of Blockchain based system with the conventional business environments, such as banking, trade...
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
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