The dollar gaining some ground after paring losses after that meeting. Fx sellinging asia off, especially the renminbi after reaching may 2019 highs. There are signs perhaps the currency is being overbought. Expecting boj, boe, and Bank Indonesia today. Those currencies and focus. Watching the bond market as well put it did not get adjustments on qe from the fed. We saw the 10 and 30 yield spike coming off a little now but that did lead to earlier the yield curve steepening and coming off a little. We are watching brent crude as well as wti. Also saw off some of the highs we saw overnight. There is optimism for demand but that is also losing some of those gains right now. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the first word News Headlines and other stories. President trump says a Coronavirus Vaccine could be just tribute it widely as early as october, contradicting statements by some of his top health officials. The head of the centers for Disease Control and prevention told a Sena
Well despite the fact that we speculative trading should be curved up, well see how yum china is doing but a muted debut so far here in the city. We are expecting a Bank Decision highly expected to stay on hold here today. Also with the ecb as well. Watching the euro very closely. Did gain yesterday on the back of a report that some ecb officials having a little more confidence in the recovery from this pandemic ahead of its policy meeting. Theyre likely to hold. Well see what they say about the strength of the currency. 118 for the zero dollar. Pound still under pressure here. Things like the seems like the e. U. May be take manager Legal Proceedings or measures here to stop the withdrawal from this deal that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been play to play out here. Your indonesia rupia as well. Recovering a bit on concerns about the Central Banks independence. Government think ceying it was opposed to the plan of a monetary board being set up at b. Y. Well dig deep beer shah in a
We are looking ahead to the fed minutes out on wednesday. Lets change the board and look at the currencies and we will check in on some of the commodities. The u. S. Dollar index currently flat. You have the euro gaining just four basis points. A stronger euro over eight straight weeks. That is beneficial for emergingmarket currencies. The yen, 76. Rsus some gains for the aussie versus the safe haven yen. Gold had its first weekly drop since early june. Gold firmly in focus. Down 3 10 of 1 . 42 for wti. Over in the u. S. , 17 basis points on the 10 year. Lets get to the first word news. Good morning south korea is warning of a new mass Coronavirus Infection after reporting its highest number of cases since early march. The latest infections are being linked to a church in seoul. Tokyo confirmed new cases. Young adults in their 20s the largest group, almost 18,000 people are infected in the capital. New data show the japanese economy continuing to stumble amid falling Global Demand and
U. S. . Moving on to some currencies, dollar weakness is still a trend at play. We are seeing that play out for the offshore cnh strengthening at around seven. In terms of the yen, 106 is the crucial level for that. Higher option volatility. In terms of hong kong, we are focused on the newtek tech index as part of the conversation. Aussie dollar currently up. 3 . Dollar weakness very much part of the play there. Lets look at what is happening with gold. It has been on a tear, and we are getting close if not touching now record highs. Gold futures above those record 1944, close to 1 gfain gain in terms of futures. I believe the record was around 1923. Looks like we are about 1 or so away from that record price. Its 1923 or 1921. Anyway, we are edging close to that record price. Weakness. Lar silver gaining close to 2 . The 10 year in the u. S. Yield is a little below 0. 6 . Rish. Rishaad were going to bring in banny lam. Welcome to the program. We just outlined, at least tom did, outlin
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