The financial markets are generally steady today. Fed's emergency -50bps rate cut provided no apparent boost to investor confidence. Instead, US stocks ended sharply lower again as traders are worried about worsening global outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus. Asian markets are mixed too. Major forex pairs and crosses are bounded inside yesterday's range for now. Australian Dollar is currently the strongest one for the week, followed by Euro. Sterling is the weakest, followed by Dollar. Technically, there is no particular change in outlook. EUR/USD edged higher but still struggles to break through 1.1239 key resistance. Decisive break there will indicate medium term bottoming at 1.0777 and turn outlook bullish. Nevertheless, break of 1.1038 will retain near term bearishness and turn bias to the downside. 0.6433 might be a short term bottom in AUD/USD. But for now, we'd expect strong resistance from 0.6662 support turned resistance to limit upside to bring fall resumption. In Asia, Nikkei closed up 0.08%. Hong Kong HSI is down -0.26%. China Shanghai SSE is up 0.32%. Singapore Strait Times is up 0.08%. Japan 10-year JGB yield is down -0.0276 at -0.139. Overnight, DOW dropped -785.91 pts, or -2.94%. S&P 500 dropped -2.81%. NASDAQ dropped -2.99%. 10-year yield dropped to new record low at 0.908, before closing at 1.010, down -0.078. |
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