by Ryan Littlestone | August 28th, 2018, 15:13:00 | Technical Analysis
USDCAD is playing between the lines It wasn’t so long ago that I was looking to short into the top of the June down trend but I sat back to see what the CPI data might bring. The strong CPI read knocked that plan into the bin and helped send USDCAD on this...
by Ryan Littlestone | August 17th, 2018, 16:04:52 | Research
Fixed Income Research & Macro Strategy (FIRMS) from Olivier Desbarres at 4X Global Research 17 August 2018 Since 5th August the Turkish Lira is down about 17% versus the Dollar and 15% in nominal effective exchange rate (NEER) terms and the concern remains that...
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 Ryan Littlestone | August 11th, 2018, 20:55:34 | Brexit, News
Deal or no deal? If the UK comes out of Brexit with no deal with the EU, here’s what’s likely to happen Some weekend reading about the WTO fall back for a Brexit no deal. The BBC have have thrown up a handy story on what the UK faces if it ends up with no...
by K-man | August 3rd, 2018, 12:36:25 | Canada, Economic Data
Canadian June 2018 trade data on 03.08.2018 prior -2.77B$ Exports 50.7B$ vs 48.34B prior, revised to 48.71B Imports 51.32B$ vs 51.12B$ prior, revised to 51.43B Ditto here, as Nafta talks progress or regress this data point will gain in importance. Pretty decent data...