Feb 24, 2015 12:18 pm UTC| Commentary
Quotes from RBC Capital Markets: -NZD: The RBNZ Inflation Expectations Survey was soft. One-year-ahead expectations fell from 1.59% to 1.11% in Q4 and the important two-year-ahead expectations fell from 2.06% to...
Feb 24, 2015 12:17 pm UTC| Commentary
Quotes from RBC Capital Markets: -GBP: The TSC testimonies were somewhat of an anticlimax with little impact on GBP. The BoEs Weale (who is amongst the most hawkish members - seeing the decision on holding rates vs....
Feb 24, 2015 12:16 pm UTC| Commentary
Quotes from RBC Capital Markets: -USD: Yellen gives her semi-annual testimony to Congress tonight. We think Yellen is unlikely to echo the dovishness from the minutes for two reasons: (1) since the meeting, we received...
Malaysia's 2015 current account surplus likely to come at 2.5% of GDP: Standard Chartered
Feb 24, 2015 10:58 am UTC| Commentary
Quotes from Standard Chartered: -We also lower our 2015 current account (C/A) surplus forecast for Malaysia to 2.5% of GDP from 5.3%, owing to likely headwinds to exports in H1. The C/A surplus increased to 4.6% of GDP...
Malaysia's GDP likely to grow by 5.0% in 2015: Standard Chartered
Feb 24, 2015 10:56 am UTC| Commentary
Quotes from Standard Chartered: -We expect sluggish export growth and an unfavourable base effect in 2014 to weigh on Malaysias economic growth in 2015. -We forecast 5.0% growth (previously: 5.5%)after a stellar...
Further EUR weakness to materialise in coming six months: Danske Bank
Feb 24, 2015 10:51 am UTC| Commentary
Quotes from Danske Bank: -The EUR declined against the USD, JPY and GBP yesterday and Fridays gains from the euro relief rally following the temporary Greek debt agreement have already been erased. -Now that the imminent...
Danish central bank to cap EUR/DKK in the range of 7.4440-7.4700: Danske Bank
Feb 24, 2015 10:48 am UTC| Commentary
Quotes from Danske Bank: -In the Scandi FX market, EUR/DKK continued higher yesterday following the largest day-to-day change since the introduction of the euro in 1999 on Friday. EUR/DKK is testing the upper bound of the...
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