by Ryan Littlestone | September 17th, 2018, 10:49:49 | News
The Japanese are using the US and China trade spat to grab some deals For several weeks, and over some pretty volatile moves in JPY on the trade wars, USDJPY has been almost asleep. Outside of the normal push and pull of USD, one reason for this steady period could be...
by K-man | September 2nd, 2018, 19:02:26 | News
The weekend (de)press(ing) and a few FX opening rates Welcome to September, I hope you all had a peace- and restful weekend. No joy in the weekend press as per below but we’re starting to get used to that aren’t we. If you want to enjoy the Sunday night,...
by K-man | August 15th, 2018, 23:52:39 | Economic Data, Japan
Japan July 2018 Trade data on 16.08.2018 prior 720B JPY Adjusted Trade balance -45.6B JPY vs prior 66.2B JPY Exports YoY 3.9% vs 6.3% exp, prior 6.7% Imports 14.6% vs 14.4% exp, prior 2.6% Quite a miss on the exports, first impact of the tariffs on steel and...
by K-man | August 9th, 2018, 23:52:51 | Economic Data, Japan
JAPAN Q2 2018 preliminary GDP and July PPI data on 10.08.2018 prior -0.2% Q2 GDP YoY 1.9% vs 1.4% exp, prior -0.6%, revised -0.9% capital expenditure QoQ 1.3% vs 0.6% exp, prior 0.3%, revised 0.5% Private consumption QoQ 0.7% vs 0.2% exp, prior -0.1%, revised -0.2%...
by K-man | August 9th, 2018, 16:37:59 | Economic Data, Japan, Technical Analysis
Japan Q2 2018 preliminary GDP preview While US and Japan meet in Washington for their trade talks , we also have Prelim Q2 GDP hitting the wires today. After last Q’s slump into negative territory at -0.2%,putting the yearly down to -0.6%, a rebound is expected...
