Japanese duo diverges – Nikkei, Yen
Feb 20, 2015 08:37 am UTC| Insights & Views
Since Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced Qualitative Quantitative Easing (QQE), in end 2012 the Nikkei has outperformed. The index has outperformed many of the indices, returning near about 80%...
Disinflationary pressure persists in Germany
Feb 20, 2015 07:54 am UTC| Insights & Views
The German Producer price Index data was published today at 7 am GMT. Latest report shows that PPI has decreased once more. MoM data came at -0.6% higher than expected -0.4% and YoY at -2.2% accelerating from the...
Germany rejects Greek proposal
Feb 20, 2015 07:12 am UTC| Insights & Views
Greek government sent the widely expected request for extension of the bailout programme for another six months to negotiate a deal. The letter was sent on the back drop of the Greek Proposal, which we covered in our...
Feb 19, 2015 16:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Today CBI industrial trend survey was published at 11 GMT. Market and the pound especially unmoved, though less volatility is not unusual given the datas low key status. Nevertheless as always, we felt the urged to...
Jobless claims- historic perspective
Feb 19, 2015 15:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Today the weekly jobless claims data was published at 1.30 pm GMT. Jobless claims fell to 2, 83,000 for the week compared to 3, 04,000 before and continuing claims increased slightly to 2.425 million,Compared to 2.367...
Feb 19, 2015 15:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Australia is quite stable with low political risk associated but in recent times, the economy is facing headwinds from over dependency as a commodity exporter to china. Chinas economy is slowing down fast from over a...
Crude oil inventory data ahead
Feb 19, 2015 14:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The WTI crude oil data will be released in 30 minutes at 4 GMT, 30 minutes after the natural gas storage data. Our view remain bearish over crude oil, as we have reiterated earlier, this view is extend to the natural...