Forex and Bitcoin news for Asia trading Monday 19 February 2018
- Fed chair Powell taps two specialists to serve as senior advisers - report
- Barclays on the week ahead (and the trades they like for it)
- Brexit - trade deal with EU won't be finalised before exit day says EU negotiator
- US yields heading even higher? PIMCO says no
- GBP - UK survey shows gauge of financial well-being, fell to a seven-month low of 42.2
- Bloomberg survey of economists on Kuroda's reappointment, and on a problem for the BOJ
- Heads up for AUD traders - option expiry due Monday, and further out
- AUD traders - heads up for RBA minutes due Tuesday, what to expect
- UK Rightmove house price index for February 0.8% m/m (prior was 0.7%)
- Japan trade balance (January): Y -943.4bn (expected Y -1020.2bn)
- Coming up for a big week in Australia - RBA, wages data and construction
- Japan - Reuters Tankan - Manufacturers index falls in February
- China raising the pressure on the US? 'Skirmish' over nuclear football in Beijing
- Japan trade balance data for January coming up soon - preview
- More on US steel, aluminium tariffs - China warns it may retaliate
- Trade ideas thread - Monday 19 February 2018
- New Zealand - services PMI for January: 55.8 (prior 56.0)
- International Monetary Fund has no objection to a European Monetary Fund
- Friday news on US steel, aluminium tariffs - update
- Brexit - UK politics - UKIP removed its leader Henry Bolton
- Weekend - Europe politics round up - German election, Italy election & more
- Economic calendar due from Asia today - Japan trade balance
- Weekend - ECB governing council member detained in graft enquiry
- Welcome to Monday morning all! FX rates early indications
- Video: The 3 big problems in the world
- Telegram raises $850 million from venture capitalists before planned ICO
- ForexLive Americas FX news wrap: Dollar gets back on its feet
Market holidays for Hong Kong and China today, and a US holiday also coming up.
There were minor moves for currencies against the USD after losing so much ground on Friday; AUD, NZD, EUR, GBP all up a little. News and data flow was very light (An ECB governing council member was detained by authorities in his country and Japan trade the major items ... see bullets above).
USD/JPY and USD/CHF are both very little net changed on the session.
Oil gained, consolidating its move (for the session at least) back above 60USD.
Bitcoin & crypto's higher over the weekend, above 10K USD again.
Still to come
