Apr 04, 2017 06:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Research & Analysis
The European recovery theme has become increasingly mainstream in recent weeks as continued Euro-area growth out-performance intersects with moderating political risks. Last week, we opened an outright long EURUSD...
FxWirePro: Long delta/short vega strategies as European political hedging vehicles
Apr 03, 2017 12:39 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
With limited room for Euro appreciation and the near certainty of a vol slump in the event of a Macron victory, long delta/short vega strategies such as EUR call flies appeal, and are well-priced in EURUSD and...
Apr 03, 2017 11:35 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
AUDUSD in medium term perspectives:At arisk of testing 0.7800 during the next few weeks as USD longs are pared. Longer term we expect to see it slightly lower to around 0.7600. A steady hand from the Fed in June plus an...
Apr 03, 2017 09:49 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Crude oil price sentiments improved owing to progressively reassuring rhetoric from a number of OPEC nations willing to extend production cuts into H22017. Despite recent bullish sentiments, the crude prices faltered...
Apr 03, 2017 02:29 am UTC| Research & Analysis
Moodys Investors Service says that Chinese banks are exposed to considerable latent asset risks, based on a bottom-up analysis of a large sample of the financial results of Chinese corporate borrowers. Moodys analysis...
Moody's: Solvency II regulatory disclosures unlikely to affect European insurers' credit quality
Apr 02, 2017 23:26 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
Creditworthiness of European rated insurers is unlikely to be affected when they will have to reveal, for the first time starting in May 2017, the extent to which their Solvency II ratios are enhanced by various measures,...
Mar 30, 2017 07:59 am UTC| Research & Analysis
Moodys Investors Service says that the economic and fiscal position of regional and local governments (RLGs) in China (Aa3 negative) moderated in 2016 according to key statistics and this trend should continue through...
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