by Ryan Littlestone | January 16th, 2020, 10:44:29 | Technical Analysis
CHF in a world of its own? CHF buying has been steady and persistent all of 2019 really, and the latest selling into the end of 2019 and early this year goes against the general risk picture. While JPY pairs have bounced on the favourable risk picture, the swissy is...
by Ryan Littlestone | March 15th, 2019, 12:10:48 | 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...
by Ryan Littlestone | September 20th, 2018, 07:31:26 | Central Banks, News, SNB
Highlights from the September 2018 SNB monetary policy meting 20 September 2018 Prior decision 3m Target LIBOR rate -1.25% unch Swiss Franc is highly valued Situation in FX markets is still fragile Unchanged 2018 CPI forecast 0.9% Lowers 2019 CPI to 0.8% vs 0.9% prior...
by K-man | December 1st, 2017, 08:31:19 | Economic Data, Switzerland
Prior was 62.0 Big beat while EURCHF is making a new high after failing 3 times in this 1.1715/25 zone. Without major risk off event , SNB seems to be succeeding to bring this baby back to 1.20 over time
by K-man | November 16th, 2017, 17:39:59 | Central Banks, SNB
CHF is still highly valued SNB Alternate Member Dewet Moser: The Foreign exchange market situation remains fragile and the risk of a renewed large-scale franc appreciation cannot be ruled out The SNB’s expansionary monetary policy stance continues to be...