Daily Archives: April 6, 2014
Australian Markets Weekly – Job prospects improve but unemployment still rising
While news headlines are still filled with announced lay-offs, indicators of the jobs market have bottomed and even improved a little…
Weekly Commentary
A steep fall in world dairy prices at auction last weeksparked a flurry of questions from the market aboutwhether a key part of the New Zealand economy’s goodnewsstory is coming unstuck.
Daily FX Wrap and Strategy
The NZD/USD was one of the strongest performersfollowing the US payrolls release. It ended the week at0.8600.There was not too much pulse in the NZD ahead of Fridaynight’s US payrolls data.
FX: let’s talk QE, EUR
There has been guessing and hinting about ECB doing QE. This is not our baseline, but what if – how will EUR react? Will this time be different, why?
The Week Ahead in FX
In the week ahead, markets will be focusing on Wednesday’s minutes of the Fed’s most recent policy setting meeting. Monetary policy meetings by the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England will also be closely watched.