Yen and Swiss Franc are trading broadly lower today thanks to rebound in global equities. Fresh selling is seen on news that White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway said Trump may still meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in the near future. And she said that it looks like US and China are getting closer to deal. Dollar also rides on the news and jumps broadly in early US session. Meanwhile, Sterling is generally weak after poor GDP data, which showed deep contraction in December. But loss in the pound is so far limited. Lower-level US-China trade talks started today in Beijing. Later on Thursday and Friday, high level talks will be carried out involving USTR Robert Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and Chines Vice Premier Liu He. There has to be some breakthroughs in the areas of on intellectual property theft, forced technology transfer, State owned enterprises, and enforcement of agreement in order to have a deal in the near futures. Technically, USD/CHF's rally resumed by taking out 1.0028 and is on track to retest 1.0128 high. USD/JPY also broke out of tight range, through 110.16, to resume recent rebound. EUR/USD edges lower today and is eyeing 1.1289 support. Break there will bring retest of 1.1215 low next. AUD/USD weakens today, thanks to Dollar's strength mainly, and it main challenge 0.7060 temporary low later in the session. In European markets, currently, FTSE is up 0.77%. DAX is up 1.02%. CAC is up 1.09%. German 10-year yield is up 0.0241 at 0.114. Earlier in Asia, Hong Kong HSI rose 0.71%. China Shanghai SSE was back from holiday and rose 1.36%. Singapore Strait Times rose 0.13%. Japan was on holiday today. |
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