Global markets are dragged down by the steep decline in the Chinese Yuan today. Major European indices are all in deep red today, following the selloffs in Asia. DOW future is currently down over -1.4% or -370 pts. Treasury yields also suffer with German 10-year yield breaking -0.5 handle again. US 10-year yield is also sent below 1.8 handle. In the currency markets, Swiss Franc and Yen are among the strongest for today so far. Euro is a surprise as second strongest, probably as markets are expecting currency war between US and China. Meanwhile, Australian Dollar is the weakest one, followed by New Zealand and then Canadian. Technically, EUR/USD"s break of 1.1162 resistance suggests short term bottoming at 1.1026. Stronger rebound could be seen to 1.1282 resistance or above. EUR/GBP's break of 0.9190 resistance suggests rally resumption for 0.9305 key resistance. EUR/AUD also took out 1.6448 key resistance to resume recent rise for 1.6765. Though, EUR/CHF's decline is still in progress, without clear loss of momentum. In Europe, currently, FTSE is down -2.12%. DAX is down -1.59%. CAC is down -1.93%. German 10-year yield is down -0.0171 at -0.511. Earlier in Asia, Nikkei dropped -1.74%. Hong Kong HSI dropped -2.85%. China Shanghai SSE dropped -1.62%. Singapore Strait Times dropped -2.04%. Japan 10-year JGB yield dropped -0.0299 at -0.195. |
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