Jan 31, 2017 12:29 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The FX vol market is showing signs of capitulation and front-end vols are softer over the week, leading to vol steepening across the board. Softer vols in U.S. could provide a momentary soft patch as the Dow Jones broke...
FxWirePro: Assessment of RVs versus IVs AUD/JPY and MXN/JPY - Relative values in conditional spreads
Jan 31, 2017 10:57 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Pick up relative value in conditional spreads, the conditional long/short vanilla spreads provide another avenue to explore when looking to fade vol risk premia. The idea is to structure zero-cost (or even premium...
Jan 31, 2017 06:18 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views
AUD remained in ranging mode, mostly between 0.7747 and 0.7162: Remains contained in a consolidative range of 0.7500-0.7600. AUDUSD in medium term perspective: Lower to 0.7400. The US dollars impressive post-election...
Jan 30, 2017 05:49 am UTC| Technicals
The flurry of bearish candlestick patterns occurred at peaks of USDJPY rallies. Shooting star pattern is traced out 114.975, hanging man at 115.224 levels, now a gap down opening has popped up at 114.396 levels. As a...
Jan 25, 2017 12:28 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
In the recent unanimous decision of South African central bank (SARB), benchmark rateisunchanged at 7% as had universally been projected. However, the SARB increased its projections and now only expects the overall rate to...
Jan 25, 2017 11:33 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
We highlight a number of tactical signals for the FX market and some options concepts that could accomplish well in a market scenario characterized by the US dollar strength over the medium term. Since the election of...
Jan 25, 2017 11:13 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The two main risks to our bearish AUD view are that 1) The currency is dragged higher in a more sustained re-rating of the global growth outlook, and that 2) The better global news and some signs of housing...
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