Tag Archives: GBP
Weekly Leveraged Funds Positioning Data
• Leveraged funds increased their net short positions in the USD by USD1.5bn. This comes following the release of final Q1 GDP data showing a much larger contraction that initially estimated.
The Week Ahead in FX
In the week ahead, investors will be focusing on Wednesdays’ minutes of the Federal Reserve’s June meeting, with few other major U.S. economic reports on the calendar.
GBP Mid-day Analysis
The Pound is short term technically overbought and it might also be fundamentally challenged if the USnon-farm payroll result is hot.
GBP Mid-day Analysis
The rise in the Pound continues in the wake of stellar UK construction results but the Pound is short term overbought and
GBP Mid-day Analysis
Not surprisingly, the UK has produced more stellar economic results overnight with UK manufacturingcoming in better than expectations at 57.7!
GBP Mid-day Analysis
While UK mortgage applications fell to an 11 month low for the month overnight actual lending in the UK rose and
Leveraged Funds Positioning Data
The following are the key points in ANZ’s analysis for the latest speculative positioning report (positioning data is for the week ending 24 June).
The Week Ahead in FX
In the week ahead, investors will be looking to the U.S. nonfarm payrolls report on Thursday for further indications on the strength of the labor market,
FX Quant Fund Positioning Data
The following are the latest weekly positions updates on Societe Generale’s FX Quant Fund which runs systematic currency strategies by SocGen’s quant analysts.
Weekly CFTC Trader Positioning Data
• Traders are active in the most liquid currencies; with the largest positions reported as shorts in EUR ($10bn) and JPY ($9bn) and the net long GBP ($5bn) and AUD positions ($3bn);
GBP Mid-day Analysis
A sharp rise in UK Business Investment and 3% GDP growth rekindled the Pound’s macro-economic differential edge with all actively traded currencies overnight.
GBP Mid-day Analysis
The Pound continues to win by default but news that the BOE is moving to keep the UK housing marketfrom developing a bubble,