FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: Fragile economic flashes from Germany, Italy, and France in traumatic Eurozone - EUR/CAD sensitivity tools to optimize hedging

Aug 11, 2016 12:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views

German industrial production missed the forecasts to disappoint the analysts in Eurozone, actual 0.8% versus forecasts at 0.9%. Germany posted EUR 21.7 billion trade surplus in July of 2016 against forecasts at 23.2B as...

Unexpected spike in Norway inflation reduces chances of a rate cut in September

Aug 11, 2016 11:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks

Norways core inflation surged to record highs in July, dampening Norges Banks rate cut speculation. Norways core inflation, as measured by the CPI-ATE unexpectedly surged to 3.7 percent y/y in July, up from 3.0 percent in...

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FxWirePro: CNY responds to PBoC’s one-off devaluation mechanism as desired - Hedge further depreciating risks

Aug 11, 2016 10:00 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views

PBoCs interventions to depreciate CNY seems to be successful as the Chinese central bank (PBoC) continues to weaken its currency via the fixing, the fixing rates are generally in line with what the fixing model suggests so...

How to stop the world's 3.1 billion young people being left behind

Aug 11, 2016 09:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

There are more young people in the world than ever before. While some see the planets 3.1 billion under 25-year-olds as a threat, others see the true potential of this demographic dividend. On International Youth Day on...

Ausgrid: electricity decision fails to shock

Aug 11, 2016 08:26 am UTC| Insights & Views

Poor Scott Morrison. Public policy storms dont get more perfect than this. Nor are they generally quite as revealing of the increasingly complex environment in which policies are made these days. The decision to reject...

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FxWirePro: Yellow metal to outpace other precious metals owing to tail risks of Brexit, Fed’s deferral and China - Long gold spot vs short 3M LME copper

Aug 11, 2016 07:47 am UTC| Insights & Views

Gold should rally towards $1400 as the US Fed is unlikely to hike this year especially after the Brexit votes. Copper is likely to underperform on rising supply and the slowdown in China. We foresee according to Chinese...

FxWirePro: NZD/CAD rejects again at range resistance – Stay short on valuation, disinflation, and Chinese Slowdown

Aug 11, 2016 07:18 am UTC| Insights & Views

Yesterday, in our technical write up we stated that the stiff resistance at 0.9552, now see the bull-swings that have rejected at the same levels once again after RBNZs OCR cut to keep it at 2.00%. Please refer below...