3 September, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on AUD/USD drifting lower – chatter of AUD/JPY stops hit
AUD/USD drifting lower – chatter of AUD/JPY stops hit
Some chatter of stops in AUD/JPY below 83.60 being triggered
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USD/JPY falling now to fresh session lows
3 September, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Losing Faith? Traders Dump Japanese Stocks At Fastest Pace In History
Losing Faith? Traders Dump Japanese Stocks At Fastest Pace In History
The narrative of the omnipotent central banker continues to be questioned with China’s inability to save its own market the latest incarnation of investors losing faith. Nowhere has the religious zealotry been more fervent than in trading Japanese stocks where Abe and Kuroda have broken every independent rule in their manipulation of wealth-giving stocks. However – it appears their time is up, as Bloomberg reports, foreigners dumped 1.43 trillion yen of Japanese equities in the three weeks through Aug. 28, Tokyo Stock Exchange data updated Thursday show.
3 September, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Russian pres. Putin: Rosneft plans to invest 1.3tln rbls in Russia’s far east
Russian pres. Putin: Rosneft plans to invest 1.3tln rbls in Russia’s far east
Comments from Russian Presiden Putin:
Headlines via Reuters
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Putin speaking in Vladivostok.
Rosneft is majority owned by the Russian government – it conducts oil and gas exploration & production.
3 September, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Mutual Funds Weekly: It’s the right time to take stock of your mutual funds and ETFs
Mutual Funds Weekly: It’s the right time to take stock of your mutual funds and ETFs
Market sell-offs give investors opportunities to buy more stocks, sure, but more importantly these declines give you a chance to examine what you already own.
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3 September, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Japan data: July Labor Cash Earnings +0.6% y/y (expected +2.0%)
Japan data: July Labor Cash Earnings +0.6% y/y (expected +2.0%)
Japan July Labor Cash Earnings +0.6% y/y
– expected +2.0% y/y, prior was -2.4%
Real cash earnings +0.3% y/y
– prior -3.0%
More (Reuters):
– Inflation-adjusted real wages rose in July for the first time in 27 months (first increase since April 2013)
3 September, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Why China Liquidations May Not Spike US Treasury Yields
Why China Liquidations May Not Spike US Treasury Yields
Via Scotiabank’s Guy Haselmann
There has been quite a bit of market chatter this week about how central bank selling of foreign exchange (FX) reserves could cause Treasury yields to soar. The market has branded this action ‘Quantitative Tightening’; borrowing the term from a note written by a London-based markets strategist. Investors seem quick to conclude that it will result in higher yields on Treasury securities. I disagree with this simplified assumption and will use this note to explain why.
3 September, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Fed’s Kocherlakota: US experiencing slow, moderate growth
Fed’s Kocherlakota: US experiencing slow, moderate growth
More comments from the Fed’s Kocherlakota
via Bloomberg
Earlier comments are here:
Fed’s Kocherlakota says again he thinks the Fed shouldn’t rasie rates this year
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