FxWirePro: A glimpse over UST derivatives ahead of Fed’s hiking season
May 18, 2017 11:57 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
US Treasury yields moved 3-6bp higher over the first half of the week, as domestic producer prices and import prices came in higher than expectations, and the May refunding auctions all tailed amid weakening in end-user...
May 18, 2017 11:22 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Futures contracts in Comex for the yellow metal has shed around $3.00, or about 0.3%, to $1,255.29 a troy ounce by 07:00GMT. Front-end and intermediate US Treasury yields declined 1-4bp, as CPI disappointed relative to...
FxWirePro: Chinese equities and commodity prices make graveyard for high beta FX space
May 18, 2017 10:32 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
FX markets are processing a messy combination of falling commodities, higher core yields, and isolated weakness in Chinese equity markets that fuels a sense something may be up in China. May is living up to its...
May 18, 2017 09:52 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Coal prices have spiked in the aftermath of Cyclone Debbie, but any price rise should be temporary. Severe supply disruptions following floods in Queensland (refer above chart) have pushed up the price of seaborne coking...
Aussie dollar to decline despite RBA’s status quo – FxWirePro’s option trades on triumph
May 18, 2017 07:27 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
From a central bank perspective, the main change since we last published has been a shift in the RBAs commentary on the economy. The RBA has dropped references to 3% GDP growth in recent communications, preferring to note...
The ABC's Ask the Doctor sends mixed messages about obesity
May 17, 2017 14:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment Health
From the popular dramas of A Country Practice and ER to news and documentaries, health and medical issues have been a longstanding favourite theme on television. Now health websites, online discussion forums, apps and...
FxWirePro: Derive yields via derivatives on low vols but eventually less ECB QE
May 17, 2017 12:31 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
We look at how the sensitivity to global yields has changed after the greater reaction in longer-end rates in Japan and the Euro area in recent sell offs. With the BoJ having signaled it is comfortable with a steeper curve...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects