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JPY

Positive vibes

• Upbeat tone. No news has been good news. US equities rose, while bond yields & USD slipped back. AUD a bit higher at start of new week.• RBA guidance. RBA meeting minutes out today. Governor Bullock speaks later in the week. Will the RBA support expectations looking for multiple cuts?• Data flow. Global PMIs due later this week. US corporate earnings also in focus with over 100 companies in S&P500 reporting over the next few days. Global Trends It has been a relatively positive start to the new week for risk assets. The US S&P500 (+0.1%) touched yet another...

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Yen Climbs, Dollar Retreats As Data-Light Week Kicks Off

Amid a quiet start to the week, the Japanese yen is finding modest support even after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s governing coalition lost its majority in the Upper House, suggesting that currency markets had largely priced in the outcome ahead of yesterday’s vote. The Liberal Democratic Party—dominant in Japanese politics for all but five of the past seventy years—shed 16 of the 66 seats it defended, as both new and established opposition parties capitalised on public frustration over surging living costs. Wages have lagged behind inflation since the pandemic, and rice prices—arguably as central to Japan’s inflation psychology as gasoline...

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Hanging on

• Hanging on. A quieter end to last week. US equities consolidated. USD a bit softer. AUD & NZD ticked up but still lost ground over the week.• US trends. US data has generally been a bit better than anticipated recently. Will this trend continue & will the USD’s rebound extend?• Event Radar. RBA Gov. Bullock speaks (Thurs) & the ECB meets (Thurs night). The global business PMIs are also due later this week. Global Trends After a few bursts of volatility earlier in the week it was an uneventful trading session on Friday. US equities consolidated around record highs,...

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Dollar Rebounds After Short-Lived Selloff

The dollar is resuming its upward climb and bond markets are stabilising after suffering a short-lived bout of extreme volatility early in yesterday’s session on speculation surrounding the potential firing of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell. Most major currencies are down between 1 and 1.5 percent against the greenback this week as the world’s most central currency enjoys a technical recovery against its peers. If yesterday was a test run to see how investors would take the early dismissal of Jerome Powell, it didn’t go particularly well. The dollar slumped, short-term Treasury yields tumbled, long-term yields soared, and equity indices...

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Fed Chair in the firing line

• Market jolt. Reports & denials about whether Chair Powell may be removed generated a burst of volatility. On net, US equities rose & USD weakened.• Fed changes. Fed Chair can’t be fired ‘without cause’. Disagreement over rates not enough. Potential change another example of US policy uncertainty.• AU jobs. Volatile Australian jobs report released today. Will it show cracks are widening? US retail sales & import prices out tonight. Global Trends A burst of headline driven volatility washed through markets overnight. Rather than being tariff related it stemmed from possible changes at the top of the US Federal Reserve....

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