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April 26, 2024
Headwinds To Long-term Global Growth
April 26, 2024 9:30 AM UTC
Bottom line: While much focus is on the cyclical economic position to determine 2024 monetary policy prospects, the 2025-28 structural growth trajectory differs to the pre 2020 GDP trajectory for major economies. While global fragmentation has a role to play, aging populations are already having a
JPY flows: Sharp JPY rally might be intervention
April 26, 2024 8:37 AM UTC
USD/JPY fell 170 pips in a few minutes, suggesting potential intervention, but this is unconfirmed. If this is intervention more is likely to be required if JPY weakness is to be stopped, but some stability may now be seen until the US opens.
Asia Open - Overnight Highlights
April 26, 2024 12:00 AM UTC
EMERGING ASIA
EM currencies perform mostly individually against the USD as the greenback fell in the New York session on weaker than expected GDP data and further rebound as session progress. PHP saw the largest losses of 0.42%, followed by KRW 0.39%, IDR 0.21%, TWD 0.16% and INR 0.01%; while the big
April 25, 2024
FOMC Preview For May 1: Signaling Concern on Inflation, Tapering Quantitative Tightening
April 25, 2024 7:04 PM UTC
Bottom Line: The FOMC meets on May 1 and rates look sure to remain at the current 5.25%-5.50% target range. The statement is likely to see some adjustments to reflect recent disappointment on inflation while repeating that more confidence on inflation moving towards target is needed before easing. I
Preview: Due April 26 - U.S. March Personal Income and Spending - Upside risk in Core PCE prices given Q1 outcome
April 25, 2024 3:41 PM UTC
March personal income and spending data will be largely old news as we have already seen Q1 totals in the GDP report. The GDP details are consistent with gains of 0.6% in personal income, 0.8% in personal spending and 0.4% in core PCE prices, all 0.1% above our pre-GDP forecasts of 0.5%, 0.7% and 0.
U.S. March Pending Home Sales bounce follows sharp February rise in Existing Home Sales
April 25, 2024 2:14 PM UTC
March has seen a stronger than expected 3.4% increase in pending home sales. Normally pending home sales lead existing home sales but in this case we appear to be seeing a catch up with strength in February existing home sales.
Q1 U.S. GDP Slows on Imports and Inventories, Core PCE Prices Stronger on the Quarter
April 25, 2024 1:14 PM UTC
Q4 GDP has come in weaker than expected at 1.6% annualized but with a stronger than expected 3.7% annualized increase in the core PCE price index. Weaker inventories and stronger imports are the main reason for the GDP slowing so the data is not a clear signal of underlying weakness. Lower initial (