Headlines:
- Equities recover a bit of poise on the session
- US CPI the main event this week
- Eurozone July Sentix investor confidence -22.5 vs -18.0 expected
- SNB total sight deposits w.e. 7 July CHF 486.6 bn vs CHF 491.9 bn prior
- BOJ raises economic assessment for 3 of Japan's 9 regions in latest Sakura report
- China says agrees to keep high-level exchanges with US after Yellen visit
- China's Xi pledges to continue working with Russia to develop strategic partnership
Markets:
- USD leads, AUD lags on the day
- European equities slightly higher; S&P 500 futures flat
- US 10-year yields flat at 4.048%
- Gold flat at $1,923.62
- WTI crude down 0.7% to $73.36
- Bitcoin down 0.2% to $30,194
It's a quiet one to start the new week in Europe, as markets are gearing towards the main event - that being the US CPI data on Wednesday.
The risk mood was fairly sluggish early on but things are recovering now ahead of US trading. S&P 500 futures were down as much as 0.5% but are now flat and European indices saw a bit of a rough open before turning the tables to be slightly higher at the moment. Still, it just looks to be a bit of a breather after the heavy selling last week.
Treasury yields were also initially slightly higher but have fallen back to flattish levels, though 2-year yields are down 2.3 bps to 4.908% currently.
In FX, the dollar is recovering some poise as well after the Friday drop following the US non-farm payrolls. USD/JPY in particular was rather perky earlier as it hit 143.00 but has pared majority of those gains to be up by just 0.1% at 142.25 now.
Elsewhere, GBP/USD is down 0.4% to 1.2780 while the antipodeans are the ones struggling the most with AUD/USD down 0.7% to 0.6645 after another rejection at its key daily moving averages near 0.6683-96 on the day.
