Dollar is under broad based selling pressure on falling treasury yields, globally. In particular, 10 year yield drops below 3% level for the first time since September. Canadian Dollar and Swiss Franc are following as the next weakest. On the other hand, return to risk aversion and falling global yields pop up Yen as the strongest. Sterling follows as second strongest, lifted by news that it could get a "get of of jail" card for revoking Brexit unilaterally. In the bond markets, US 10 year yields hits as low as 2.962 in early trading, back below 3%. German 10 year bund yield is trading down -0.015 at 0.293, below 0.3 handle for the first time since July. Japan 10 year JGB dropped -0.014 to 0.069, lowest since July too. In other markets, at the time of writing, FTSE is down -0.51%, DAX is down -0.53%, CAC is down -0.35%. DOW futures point to slightly lower open. Earlier in Asia, Nikkei dropped -538.71 pts or -2.39% to 22036.05. Singapore Strait Times dropped -0.72% to 3167.79. But Hong Kong HSI rose 0.29% to 27260.44. China Shanghai SSE rose 0.425 to 2665.95 Technically, Sterling's rebound today after breaching near term support suggests that it's not ready to resume recent down trend yet. The keys to watch for the rest of today are EUR/USD and USD/CHF. EUR/USD is in range of 1.1267/1472. USD/CHF is in range of 0.9908/1.0006. Break out of the ranges would reveal the broad direction in Dollar. |
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