BoK likely to keep policy rate unchanged at 1.25 pct next week, says DBS Research

Apr 05, 2017 05:54 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks Economy

The Bank of Korea (BoK) is expected to hold its benchmark policy rate at 1.25 percent at its monetary policy decision, scheduled to be held next week. Although energy inflation may not be a big worry to the...

FxWirePro: The Day Ahead- 5th April 2017

Apr 05, 2017 05:31 am UTC| Commentary Economy Central Banks

Lots of economic dockets and events scheduled for today and some with high volatility risks associated. Data released so far: Japan: Markit services PMI edged higher in March to 52.9 Australia: ANZ commodity...

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Chart of the Day: Czech peg break

Apr 04, 2017 15:53 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

The volatility curveof the Czech Koruna is suggesting that the market is pricing the much-anticipated peg withdraw by the Czech central bank within the next 2 months. The central bank hasnt given out any specific date...

RBA monetary policy: Assessing future bias

Apr 04, 2017 13:15 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) chose to keep the interest rate steady at 1.5 percent. Lets look at the details of policy announcement to assess the bias of RBA. Key highlights RBA notes that the global...

Kuroda Stands and Delivers: Yen fortifies in FxWirePro’s currency index, Derivatives trades of EUR/JPY

Apr 04, 2017 12:19 pm UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views

EURJPY demonstrates the highest beta to Euro-turmoil for the obvious reason that both legs of the cross pull in the same direction during stress. The GFC period is deliberately excluded from the analysis assuming that a...

FxWirePro: A glimpse on EONIA derivatives on ECB dovish rhetoric

Apr 04, 2017 11:01 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views

The ECB rhetoric has reduced expectation of an early ECB lift off but the EONIA market is still pricing 10bp of tightening by Jun18. We acknowledge the risk of earlier lift-off relative to our baseline scenario. Close...

FxWirePro: BoC’s dovish stance keeps CAD growth at stake – Reverse knock outs EUR/CAD put flies

Apr 04, 2017 07:36 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views

Along similar lines of EURUSD, we also like EUR call/CAD put flies. The macro view on CAD is negative on a mix of BoC dovishness, sensitivity to NAFTA renegotiation talk which is likely to re-enter headlines over the...