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Daily Market Outlook, January 19, 2023 Bad News Is Bad News After All… Investors responded negatively to a round of weak US data yesterday, the trifecta of retail sales, industrial production and producers prices data left the markets with heightened concerns of imminent recession looming for the world’s largest economy, Asian investors followed suit with […]
Bitcoin broke the psychological level of 20000, touching the resistance at the level of 210000. Now, the price of Bitcoin is getting ready for the pullback. Bitcoin might potentially gain the required support at the level of 20000, pull from it, and jump. So, let’s observe what will happen next. Silver has approached the resistance […]
The minutes of the December policy meeting of the ECB released today reinforced the hawkish policy stance that the ECB tried to communicate during and after the meeting: the Bank is far from completing the tightening cycle and more rate hikes are necessary. The key takeaways of the December minutes were that “the direction of […]
The Bank of Japan dismissed market rumors about further adjustments in the yield curve control and left the policy unchanged today, disappointing recent yen buyers. The Bloomberg report released yesterday about the ECB plans to execute more caution in the rest of the tightening cycle caused brief market embarrassment sending EURUSD to 1.08 and below, […]
The unexpected rebound of the Chinese economy as seen in the latest batch of Chinese data reinforced the idea that a hidden China economic momentum will unlock the upside in pro-cyclical currencies, including the euro. The decline in natural gas prices pushes the idea of an energy crisis deep to the sidelines causing revisions of […]
GS Shares Tank on Q4 Results Shares in Goldman Sachs are on the backfoot today following heavy losses yesterday amidst a weaker-than-expected set of Q4 earnings. On the back of solid results from JPM and Citi last week, investors were hoping for a similar display from Goldman. However, with EPS coming in at $3.32 vs […]
Key US Data Up Next Today sees a double whammy for US data with both December PPI and Retail Sales due. On the back of weaker-than-forecast US inflation, today’s data is drawing more attention-than-usual. USD has been in decline since those Dec CPI figures were released with traders now anticipating a further pivot from the […]
BOJ Holds Steady Traders were treated to some late New Year fireworks overnight as the Japanese Yen collapsed across the board in reaction to the latest BOJ meeting. Ahead of the January monetary policy meeting, traders had been increasingly expectant that the BOJ would signal a shift in policy. With the bank having recently lifted […]
Daily Market Outlook, January 18, 2023 BoJ Double Down or Bust The Bank of Japan has once again remained anchored to their easy monetary stance, frustrating bond traders who had been poised to profit from an about turn in Yield Curve Control policy, the Japanese Yen shed 2% as the Nikkei ascended by a similar […]
Equities Hold Onto Early 2023 Gains A mixed start for equities markets on Tuesday on the back of the latest Chinese economic data seen overnight. Q4 China GDP was seen slowing to 2.9%, well below the Chinese government’s 5.5% target. However, the result was above the market’s 1.6% consensus forecast and shows that while activity […]