Apr 18, 2018 07:32 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
GBPs performance in January was stronger than we had expected on a combination of less immediate tail risk from Brexit(following outline political agreement in December over a stand-still transition once the UK leaves the...
FxWirePro: What drives AUD/JPY long portfolios?
Apr 17, 2018 12:42 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The macro conditions are coming together to drive a pocket of JPY underperformance, albeit one that is likely to be limited in duration and magnitude, weve shown some significant driving forces: 1) We reckon that the...
Apr 17, 2018 11:23 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks
FX markets have been seeming indifferent to a lot recently, with most major pairs confined to sideways ranges despite the exceptionally large deluge of geopolitical and trade war risk headlines in the past two...
FxWirePro: Trade and hedge USD/CAD via Diagonal Ratio Call Spreads ahead of BoC
Apr 17, 2018 10:27 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
The BoC should have an interest in the CAD not appreciating significantly against the USD. After all, it does not want to burden the economic and inflation outlook too much with a strong CAD as the competitiveness of...
Apr 17, 2018 09:14 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
The Norges Bank sounds ever more confident about economic prospects and keen to start the process of rate normalization seven years after the last hike. Just today Governor Olsen remarked on the solid prospects for...
Apr 17, 2018 07:40 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The potential near-term NAFTA break-through is a potential catalyst for the recent retracement of this underperformance to run significantly further. Therefore we buy CADJPY (bought at 84.036, stop at 82.34) as a best...
Apr 17, 2018 06:12 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The back and forth in the NAFTA renegotiations has been the main driver of CAD exchange rates in recent months. In the interim, we expect the broad USD to continue to appeal to its countercyclical properties and continue...
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