Attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman is the biggest news in early US session. WTI oil price is up 3.5% and is back pressing 53 handle after dipping to 50.85 yesterday. The news is both supportive Swiss Franc and Canadian Dollar, which are currently the two strongest ones for today so far. Australian Dollar remains the weakest one as weak details in the job report affirms RBA's path for rate cuts this year. New Zealand Dollar follows as second weakest. Technically, notable weakness is seen in Euro today. But at this point, EUR/USD is holding above 1.2510 minor support. EUR/JPY stays above 122.10 minor support. EUR/GBP is kept well above 0.8829 minor support. There is not clear sign of topping in the resilient Euro yet. Yen attempted to rally early today but retreated with risk aversion. USD/JPY and GBP/JPY will likely stay in consolidation for a while longer. In other markets, DOW open mildly higher today and is currently trading up 0.44%. 10-year yield, however, ids down -0.0079 at 2.11. In Europe, FTSE is currently up 0.07%. DAX is up 0.52%. CAC is up 0.09%. German 10-year yield is down -0.0059 % -0.243. Earlier in Asia, Nikkei dropped -0.46%. Hong Kong HSI dropped -0.05%. China Shanghai SSE rose 0.05%. Singapore Strait Times rose 0.40%. Japan 10-year JGB yield rose 0.0004 to -0.111. |
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