Prior +0.6%Market index 166.9 vs 179.3 priorPurchase index 129.8 vs 137.5 priorRefinance index 347.6 vs 385.8 prior30-year mortgage rate 7.70% vs 7.67% priorThat's a sharp drop in mortgage applications in the past week as the average rate of the most popular US home...
Copper Technical Analysis – The bulls are eyeing this resistance
The copper market remains in a tight spot amid uncertainties about global growth, tensions in the Middle East and improving activity data from China. This is leading to a rangebound price action within a descending triangle until something big happens triggering a...
UBS, Morgan Stanley join the chorus in raising China GDP growth forecast for the year
UBS is revising higher their 2023 GDP growth forecast for China to 5.2% from 4.8% previously. Earlier, Goldman Sachs did go against the current (sort of) by revising lower their forecast estimate to 5.3% (previously 5.4%). But they were one of the few, if not the only...
OPEC+ not planning extraordinary meeting after Iran calls for Israel oil embargo – report
Well, it might still be too early to really judge how the Israel-Hamas conflict is going to turn out. So, I would expect OPEC+ to stick with the status quo for a bit longer before making any hasty decisions. Oil is up over 3% on the day to $89.14 currently as...
CFD Trading Made Clear: An Octa Guide
With countless abbreviations and numerous strange and unfamiliar terms, the world of finance can be confusing. One such commonly used word is ‘CFD’. The Octa experts explain what it is exactly and how you can profit from it below.What are CFDs?A contract for...
Fed’s Harker: Pause on rate hikes should be extended
Workings of the economy cannot be rushedFed can wait until early next year to decide if we have done enoughThat just reaffirms their current position and the thing working in their favour is that the US economy is holding up well, as evident by the retail sales data...
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WTI Crude Oil Technical Analysis – Watch what happens in the Middle East
Crude Oil has been ranging between the $83 support and the broken trendline as the situation in the Middle East remains a big risk for the market. Good news were followed by falling oil prices while bad news triggered rallies. Yesterday, we got an unfortunate news of...
ECB’s Visco: Inflation not yet consistent with monetary, price stability
Monetary policy reaction was necessarySecond-round effects are keeping inflation at levels not consistent with underlying monetary and price stabilitySome token remarks there by Visco as he is set to depart as Italy's central bank governor at the end of this...
Biden: US will make sure Israel has what it needs to defend itself
Hamas has committed atrocities that make ISIS look more rationalGaza hospital explosion caused by "the other side"He was put in a tough position after the attack on the Gaza hospital overnight but the above take isn't going to win him any public favours. But for now,...
Eurozone September final CPI +4.3% vs +4.3% y/y prelim
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GBPJPY Technical Analysis – Watch what happens around this resistance
UK:The BoE kept interest rates unchanged at the last meeting. The central bank is leaning more towards keeping interest rates “higher for longer”, although it kept a door open for further tightening if inflationary pressures were to be more persistent. The latest...
Market Update – October 18 – Data Fuels Higher-for-Longer Bets
Asian equities followed US stocks lower after strong retail data. Treasury yields continued to shoot higher, reaching new cycle peaks. Data revived fear of an even higher Fed rate stance for an even longer period of time. Implied Fed funds futures climbed and priced...
Citi raises China 2023 GDP growth forecast to 5.3% from 5.0% previously
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US president Biden arrives in Israel
The hope here is that his visit will deter other regional actors from stepping in and to ease the ongoing tensions. But amid the heavy scrutiny, it could end up backfiring. That especially after the Israel bombing of the hospital in Gaza that killed at least 500...
USDJPY Technical Analysis – Fears of an intervention keep the pair in a range
US:The Fed left interest rates unchanged as expected at the last meeting.The macroeconomic projections were revised higher, and the Dot Plot showed that the FOMC still expects another rate hike by the end of the year with less rate cuts projected in 2024.Fed Chair...
Nomura revises China 2023 GDP growth forecast slightly higher
Nomura is the latest to revise higher its forecast of the Chinese economy, expecting 2023 GDP growth to come in at 5.1% compared to 4.8% previously. They are not the first to do so in recent weeks with JP Morgan and ANZ also having done so already.The latest data from...
Japan tourism recovers to near pre-Covid levels
The number of visitors to Japan rose to 2.18 million in September, highlighting a near full recovery to pre-Covid levels at this point. Relative to 2019, the visitor numbers last month are now roughly 96% of that. Well, a weaker yen is definitely a factor as well I...
UK finance minister Hunt: Inflation rarely falls in a straight line
If we stick to our plan, then we still expect inflation to keep falling this yearThere's always some way to spin it to how they want now, isn't there? Only time will tell if price pressures are going to prove to be more stubborn than anticipated, which it likely will....