Aug 22, 2017 12:02 pm UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Following the early-summer policy-shift and repricing of USDCAD lower, our medium-term projection remains for some modest retracement in USDCAD in the coming quarters. With downside broad dollar risks lingering longer, the...
Aug 22, 2017 10:52 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Bearish scenarios of AUDUSD below 0.73 given: 1) The unemployment rate moves back towards 6%, forcing the RBA to respond more aggressively to weak inflation; 2) The Fed responds to firm labor market outcomes and...
Aug 22, 2017 07:22 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The Chinese copper demand has been seriatim at a concrete pace in 1st half of 2017 owing to the strong performance of the consumer goods sector and firm infrastructure spending, but strong demand conditions in May and June...
Aug 22, 2017 06:23 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
When we are strategizing hedging frameworks, we came across the implied volatility of ATM contracts across all tenors are spiking higher than 9.25%, the rationale is that all potential downswings should be optimally...
FxWirePro: Hedge EUR/CAD puzzling swings via diagonal call ratio spread on BoC monetary policy
Aug 21, 2017 12:11 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
A reassessment of BoCs policy path will likely take time, and only after a second hike (expected October) is delivered, fully unwinding the 50bp of emergency cuts delivered in 2015 (hikes whose motivation seems more...
FxWirePro: Draghi’s speech at Jackson Hole event to fuel bullish EURO option themes
Aug 21, 2017 09:57 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
ECB President Mario Draghi will also be speaking in Jackson Hole and before that in Lindau, Germany. The FX market will mainly want him to say whether the euro strength seen over the past months is beginning to get too...
FxWirePro: ECB regime - Euro bullishness versus dollar weakness still overriding FX options stimuli
Aug 21, 2017 06:18 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
It was then, when EURUSD was about to breach the 1.40 mark to the upside in the spring of 2014 the ECB took action as well, at the time it was first of all Mario Draghi who ended the rise with the help of verbal...
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