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And just like that, we're past the halfway point in 2023 already. While month-end and quarter-end might have made things a little dicey towards the end of last week, we can now move on from that and continue to keep the focus on the balance between inflation, the...

It's a brand new week, month, quarter, half-year for markets but this is a bit of a familiar story. It is one that we already went through during October last year, with just a different handle for USD/JPY. The pair is up 0.2% today to 144.60 and all eyes are...

Thierry Breton is the current Commissioner for Internal Market of the European Union.He said the European Union will deepen cooperation with Japan on semiconductorsmove to strengthen control over the technology"We believe that it's extremely important to secure the...

It was an active session for economic data with the focus on China’s second manufacturing PMI. Last week we had the official PMIs, from China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The official manufacturing PMI stayed in contraction for its third consecutive month....

I posted earlier on Murray Watt, Australia's agriculture minister's remarks on the heavy going in negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union:His remarks were over the weekend to local public broadcaster ABC. He also had very brief comments on his...

China June Caixin Manufacturing PMI comes in at 50.5expected 50.2prior 50.9Last week we had the official PMIs, and manufacturing remained stuck in contraction:China has two primary Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) surveys - the official PMI released by the National...

While down in June compared with May job vacancies are still 47.5% higher than pre-pandemic levels as tightness in the labour market continues.Down 10% y/yANZ:"It will take time for the labour market tightness to ease," "But the direction of change is clear, and we...

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TD/Melbourne Institute Inflation gauge comes in at +0.1% m/mprior was +0.9% m/m in May, which was the largest m/m jump since January 20235.7% y/yprior 5.9%Trimmed mean (core or underlying inflation) +0.2% m/m and 5.1% y/y priors were 0.8% m/m and 5.2% y/y--A monthly...

Japan flash PMIs for June 2023 are here. The 'final' for the month confirms the flash reading of a slide back into contraction in June. The contraction for Japan's factory activity in June came after the PMI showed it expanding for the first time in 7 months in...