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Commodity currencies suffered last week but Canadian dollar was the worst performer. Loonie declined -2.93% in the past week, making it the weakest amongst major currency pairs. Other than the broad-based strength in US dollar amidst speculations of early taper by the Fed, the sharp selloff in crude oil price was the ultimate reason driving
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New Delhi: Gold in the national capital on Tuesday jumped Rs 170 to Rs 46,544 per 10 grams despite rupee appreciation, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the precious metal had closed at Rs 46,374 per 10 grams. Silver also gained Rs 172 to Rs 61,584 per kg, from Rs 61,412 per kg
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New Zealand Dollar rises broadly today after a top RBNZ official indicated that the decision to refrain from rate hike was mainly due to communication difficulty. Instead, the central bank is actively considering a 50bps hike. Strong rebound in Asian stocks also supported other commodity currencies, but positive sentiment is not much carried through to
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Following the FOMC minutes, the attention turns to the Jackson Hole symposium later this week. We expect that the Fed would make formal announcement of QE tapering at the November meeting. With a tapering size of US15B at each meeting, the entire QE program would be complete by September 2022. As the big picture of
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Composite reading from the Chicago Fed Prior was +0.09 (revised to -0.01) Was +0.26 in May (revised to +0.15) This report is a composite reading of 85 already-released economic indicators. Anything above zero is positive and is broken into four broad categories: production and income; employment, unemployment, and hours; personal consumption and housing; sales, orders,
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Markets continue to reverse some of last week’s move, as seen in the rebound in European and Asian equities. Dollar, Yen and Swiss Franc all turned weaker while commodity currencies strengthened. PMIs from Eurozone and UK are all solid, despite mild pull back. Yet, both are outshone by commodity currencies. Sterling is currently having a
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Jibun / Markit flash manufacturing PMI for August, wilting from July but still in expansion.  Services: 43.5 (vs. July’s 47.4)  Composite: 45.9 (July 48.8) Commentary from the report, in brief: weaker demand to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, coupled with sustained supply chain pressures decline in overall private sector activity was led by the larger services sector,
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