The Traderszone Network

Your daily thread to exchange trading ideas and discussion 14 March
Markets are still busy second-guessing on a number of issues so are you any clearer right now?

Pound falling further but it’s not the only casualty 14 March
General USD demand has now seen USDJPY back above 115.05, USDCHF to 1.0097 and EURUSD down to 1.0637.

European equities a tad firmer as we wait on official openings 14 March
– DAX futures +0.1%
– CAC40 +0.2%
– FTSE +0.1%
Bund futures open down 16 at 159.03

Germany Feb CPI  final reading
14 March
– +0.6% flash
– yy 2.2% as exp/flash
– HICP mm +0.7% as exp/flash
– yy +2.2% as exp/flash
Nothing to see here in the final report.

Forex option contracts rolling off today at the 15.00 GMT cut 14 March
– EURUSD:1.0550 (430m) 1.0600 (235m) 1.0630 (433m) 1.0650 (456m)
– USDJPY:  114.75 (330m)
A few large expiries of note in play again today.

The 2017 Free Speech University Rankings have been released, and it turns out that London is a hotbed of campus censorship.

To find out what’s going on, spiked-online.com’s writer Jacob Furedi talked to fellow students about the state of free speech at their universities…

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It may have been a quiet Asian session but now someone’s pressed the sell button 14 March
No headlines of note so we’ll assume it’s a good size order going through in thin pre/start of Europe trading.