Forex news from the European session 24 Sept
News:
BOE's Broadbent not surprised that markets have pushed back timing of rate hikes
ECB's Liikanen says they are monitoring global developments very closely and can act if required
Japan has almost beaten deflation says Abe
Latest ECB TLTRO disappoints expectations
Norway cuts interest rates by 0.25% to 0.75%
Taiwan cuts key interest rate to 1.75%
Taiwan central bank is the latest to move over China fears
ECB's bank supervisor says practices were not the same across the 19 countries
China drafting new regulations on "Panda" bonds
RBA's Heath sees unemployment stable until significant rise in growth
ANZ Research now expects RBA to cut rates twice in 2016
German transport minister says there will also be random tests on emissions from vehicles from other car makers
Citigroup lowers 2015 global growth forecast to +2.6% vs +2.7% prev
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Data:
German IFO business climate Sept 108.5 vs 107.9 exp
Italian industrial orders June mm +0.6% vs -2.5% prev
July 2015 Italian retail sales +0.4% vs -0.3% prior m/m
Germany GFK consumer confidence Oct +9.6 vs +9.8 exp
August 2015 UK BBA mortgage approvals 46,743 vs 47,000 exp
France business confidence Sept 100 vs 99 exp
Japan all industry activity index July mm +0.2% vs 0.0% exp
Nikkei 225 closes down -2.76% at 17,571.83
It's been another busy session that has seen European equity markets on the back foot again and the euro enjoying mixed fortunes
An early euro rally, accelerated by better German IFO, was quickly sold into as IFO warned of negative reaction next month after the VW scandal and ECB's Liikanen said that they were ready to act if needed
EURUSD ran into good offers at 1.1225 and was soon being sold down to session lows of 1.1184 dragging other euro pairs down with it
But as equity markets continued to weaken we saw the euro stage a comeback and EURUSD has now posted new session highs of 1.1240, with EURGBP taking out 0.7350 offers/res to post 0.7376.
EURJPY though has been capped by USDJPY selling which has seen lows of 119.55 while the EURGBP demand has given supply to cable which has been knocked down to 1.5255 after failing to hold above 1.5275-80
The Aussie $ has remained on the back foot with AUDUSD posting 0.6939 after failing to hold 0.7000 and then chewing through good demand at 0.6950. NZDUSD has been slightly better behaved sold above 0.6300 but finding bids into 0.6270 on AUDNZD selling
USDCAD has continued to climb and post new highs of 1.3385 before running into decent offers ahead of 1.3400
Other news of note brought interest rate cuts from Norway and Taiwan and a disappointing 5th tranche of TLTROs for the ECB
US data coming up will keep traders busy and we can look forward to more thrills n spills before the day is out