Markets sentiments stabilized as more information was revealed regarding escalation of US-China trade tensions. The Chinese delegation will still travel to the US, with Vice Premier Liu He remaining as the lead negotiator. While there are still a lot of uncertainties with tariffs threats on, there is a least some hope for another about turn before new tariffs are imposed this Friday. Meanwhile, RBA refrained from cutting interest rates pre-emptively. Australian Dollar is double supported and rebounds strongly today. Sterling is currently the second strongest one after Aussie, followed by Canadian. Dollar is now the weakest one for today, followed by Swiss Franc and then New Zealand Dollar. However, it should be note that the greenback is staying above last week's close against all except Euro, Yen and Aussie. Yen remains the strongest one for the week. That is, risk aversion is not totally eased. Technically, EUR/USD and USD/CHF remains bounded in tight range, maintains near term bearish outlook. USD/JPY is staying near term bearish. EUR/JPY continues to defend 123.39 key support but looks vulnerable. AUD/USD, despite today's rebound, is held below 0.7069 resistance and stays near term bearish. Though, EUR/AUD's break of 1.5920 minor support is an early sign of near term reversal. Overnight, DOW closed down just -0.25% at 26438.48 after diving to as low as 26033.95, paring most of initial losses. S&P 500 dropped -0.50%. NASDAQ dropped -0.45%. 10-year yield dropped -0.031 to 2.500. In Asia, Hong Kong HSI is up 0.46%. China Shanghai SSE is up 0.69%. Singapore Strait Times is up 0.71%. Japan is still enjoying the 10-day holiday. |
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