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- Beijing scrapped a rule limiting prices of pre-owned homes in popular district
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- JP Morgan analyst says Fed willing to sacrifice economy to kill inflation, "like the ECB"
- New Zealand data - Food Price Index (August) +0.5% m/m (prior -0.5%)
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- Newswire says US government reportedly looking to offload almost USD13bn of mortgage bonds
- Carlyle CEO says the FOMC will hike rates one more time this year
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- EUR/USD higher on ECB rate hike leak
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It was another subdued day in Asia with the excuse today being ‘awaiting the US CPI’. Fair enough, it’s a critical report. Oh, tomorrow we’ll be getting ‘waiting on the ECB’.
Nevertheless we did have some minor movement.
EUR/USD rose on Reuters reporting an apparent leak of a likely European Central Bank rate hike on Thursday (see bullets above). Reuters cited an unnamed source who said the reason for the hike was higher inflation forecasts.
USD/JPY chipped away at its Monday morning gap, rising to a high just over 147.40, so there’s still a way to go higher before that gap is filled. Market pricing has shifted significantly to an end to negative rates at the Bank of Japan in January 2024 from September 2024 previously. More in the bullets above on this.
The USD gained more widely, AUD, NZD, CAD, GBP all traded down a little during the session. The yuan broke the mould, the Chinese currency is stronger on the session. Piecemeal policy changes continue in China and the news on Country Garden (the troubled property developer) is also on the up, it received approval to extend another yuan bond.
News flow otherwise was light.
We got data from Japan, m/m PPI came in higher than expected while the y/y was inline and lower for an eighth consecutive month.
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EUR/USD rose on the 'leak':
