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Depressed FX volatility allows for few surprises
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy - 4X Global Global FX volatility has fallen further in the past month to its lowest level since September 2014 according to our estimate (see Figure 1). Volatility in most major currencies has either fallen or only increased...
US consumer – From King to Prince
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) 8 October 2019 It is perhaps obvious that Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) or consumer demand is critical to US economic growth. PCE growth has accounted for over 80% of US real GDP growth since end-2013 (see...
“Currency wars” not central banks’ end-game – 4X Global Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 12 September 2019 Not a day passes without the media and US President Trump pointing the finger at “currency wars” and “competitive devaluations”. The thrust of the argument is that central banks across the world,...
A trader’s view: MXN – Indices – Metals
A great analysis piece by ForexFlow platform member Jorge Celio MXN My main driver on MXN has and continue to be Remittances. The slow down makes me nervous. In terms of positioning will have a cautiously approach. I would be a seller of EURMXN on any EUR strength. ...
Draghi’s ECB legacy – Stable Euro, weak inflation
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 10 July 2019 European Central Bank President Mario Draghi will step down at the end of his eight-year term on 31 October. Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF – which has implicitly called for looser global...
Looking beyond perfect Sterling Storm
4X Global Research - Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 26 June 2019 It is now three years since the referendum on 23rd June 2016 in which 52% of the British electorate voted for the UK to exit the EU. The issue of whether, when and how the UK will...
Renminbi Depreciation True To Form – 4X Global Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) 7 June 2019 We noted in “Renminbi depreciation – Case of déjà vu” (16 May 2019) that the Renminbi’s performance since early March had been very similar to that of May-June 2018 and that if, as we expected, history was...
Renminbi depreciation –Case of déjà vu – 4X Global Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) The Renminbi Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER), which had appreciated 3.5% in the two months up to 5 March 2019 and then traded in a narrow 1% range in the following two months, has since 2 May depreciated 2.1%...
4X Global Research says Brexit and Sterling are going nowhere, fast
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 18 April 2019 Much has happened in the past two months and yet the UK finds itself in a similar situation as in mid-October 2018 when it had just over five months to get a deal through parliament before its...
Swiss Franc – An imperfect Safe Haven currency – 4X Global Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 15 March 2019 There is no formal definition of what constitutes a safe haven currency. However, it will normally exhibit a number of related characteristics, including i) high trading volume and liquid financial...
Brexit: Another 48 hours – 4X Global Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 08 March 2019 The House of Commons (HoC), the lower house of parliament, will on 12th March hold a legally-binding vote on whether to approve Prime Minister May’s draft Brexit deal – the Withdrawal Agreement and...
Politics and geopolitics driving currencies, central banks in stasis…for now – 4X Global Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 05 March 2019 In line with our forecasts, the 60bp of central bank rate hikes in 2018 is contributing to the ongoing slowdown in global GDP growth, which we estimate will fall below 3% yoy in Q1 2019 for the first...
Chinese growth slowdown – Project Fear? 4X Global Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) 31 January 2019 The ongoing trade war between the US and China undoubtedly contributed to the slowdown in Chinese GDP growth to a nine-year low of 6.4% yoy in Q4 and (re)ignited concerns that China is in trouble....
Nominal Effective Exchange Rates: Monthly seasonal patterns – 4x Global Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) – 10 January 2019 This report examines the monthly seasonal patterns of 32 major Nominal Effective Exchange Rates (NEERs) going back to January 2011, using 76,600 daily data points. The NEER provides a more accurate...
What you may have missed and why it matters
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) from 4x Global Research – 4 January 2019 Price action in markets deprived of tier-one macro data over the Christmas and New Year period has centred on acute volatility in US and global equities, with sizeable...
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