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Japan PPI, AKA Corporate Goods Price Index. This is 'wholesale' level inflation , the price that firms charge each other for products.PPI -0.7% m/mexpected -0.2%, prior +0.2%+5.1% y/yexpected 5.6%, prior 5.8%This data point is from the Bank of Japan. The Bank's policy...

On Friday the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), a business lobby group, said the UK economy would probably avoid a recession. “We are on course to only narrowly avoid a recession,” “With anemic growth rates predicted into the future, there is a real danger of...

Data for purchases made in New Zealand on debit, credit and store cards. Sales on electronic cards cover about 68% of core retail sales in New Zealand.Disappointing data from NZ, the long cycle of Reserve Bank of New Zealand rate rises are taking a toll on the...

The US dollar view from UBS is via its equity analyst folks, saying that they'd rather look for overseas growth to fund equity valuations, with a lower US dollar contributing to that, than to continue chasing the narrow breadth leaders:“ ... rather than chasing the...

Posting this on gold from Friday ICYMI:Physical gold demand slowed in China and India this week and forced dealers to offer discounts, with volatile prices in India prompting buyers to delay purchases.China raises gold holding for 7th straight monthWhile the headline...

I posted earlier on this weekend's crude oil forecast revision from Goldman Sachs here:As further background to this change of call, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Global Head of Commodities Research Jeffrey Currie spoke in a Bloomberg TV interview on Friday, making...

Bloomberg (gated) has the report of remarks from Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman at an Arab-China business forum in Riyadh.on Sunday:Saudi Arabia and its OPEC+ allies are trying to combat “uncertainties and sentiment” in the oil marketThe translation of...

Goldman Sachs had been persistently amongst the most bullish of analysts for oil prices. Its now issued its third downward revision of its Brent forecast in the last six months.Dropped its Brent forecast for December to $86 a barreldown from its prior projection of...

Note that markets are closed in Australia today for a public holiday. Chinese data is due into the early European hours, 7am GMT and 3am US Eastern time. This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, access it here. The times in the left-most column are...

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On a Monday morning, market liquidity is very thin until it improves as more Asian centres come online. Prices are liable to swing around on not too much at all, so take care out there.Its going to be thinner for longer today with Australian markets out for a holiday....