Today’s upward revision of GDP unlikely to boost confidence for Japan
Sep 08, 2015 15:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Today GDP data showed that Japanese economy shrank only by 0.3% in second quarter compared to previous estimate of 0.4% contraction and comfortably beating median estimate of 0.5% contraction. However this upward...
Czech Koruna peg leads to swell in FX reserve
Sep 08, 2015 14:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Latest data released by Czech National Bank (CNB) revealed how intense the pressure has been on the Euro- Czech Koruna peg at 27, which has been in place since 2013. With 4.4% y/y GDP growth, interest rate at 0.05%,...
Russian economic contraction intensifies
Sep 08, 2015 14:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Just like analyst and economists expected, Russian economy faced sharp second quarter contraction in 2015, given weakness in commodities, especially energy prices, its major exports and severe weakness in Rouble. Sanctions...
Soft data points to further weakness in Australian economy
Sep 08, 2015 13:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Australian banks survey shows that while company has given positive outlook to government and Reserve Bank of Australias (RBA) efforts as business conditioned index improved to 11 in August from 6 in July, they are not...
Crude oil price slumps likely to disrupt U.S. investment activity
Sep 08, 2015 13:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views
U.S. producers have sharply cut down on production and new investment in response to consistent declines in energy prices. The energy sector represents 7.5% of total investment and about 1% of GDP. We estimate that capex...
FxWirePro: USD/TRY longs of debit call spreads on job, shorts began functioning
Sep 08, 2015 13:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views
We had advised bull call spreads on 02nd and this has been three days in arrow that the pair is gaining. So thereby our ITM calls on below strategy is working pretty well and now its the time for OTM calls which has begun...
China regulators and Man Group head mystery
Sep 08, 2015 12:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Man Group is worlds largest publicly traded hedge fund and when there China head mysteriously disappeared from public eye, speculation rose that she might have been detained by Chinese Authorities for investigation over...
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