EU puts have more steam at the moment than calls, forwards are not performing near term but are performing in further out contracts, other metrics are on the buy side but weakening. Looks like gains may be capped shortly based on those metrics. A few technical concerns agree, not unanimous.
July ECB meeting preview: On hold until at least September
Having delivered the widely anticipated 25 basis point cut in key interest rates in June, the ECB is expected to leave policy unchanged at what will be its last meeting before the summer recess. Since the last gathering, inflation developments have been mixed and the euro has been volatile in the face of diminished easing speculation in the U.S. and the fallout from surprisingly sharp swings to the right and then left in the recent snap French National Assembly elections. Accordingly, Thursday’s announcement is seen holding the key deposit rate at 3.75 percent, the refi rate at 4.25 percent and the rate on the marginal lending facility at 4.50 percent. The bank is also likely to repeat June’s limited forward guidance which stated that it “will keep policy rates sufficiently restrictive for as long as necessary” to achieve the inflation target…
yaaa…. bonds are sleeping
trump just got hole for a piercing in his ear
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08:30 Empire State Mfg Survey
12:00 jerome yaks
16:35 daly: “The Bull, the Bear, and the Banker” (haha, she should know lol)
GVI Forex 10:58 there is no “trump effect”
and if there was one – i.e. the GAPs – theay are all POOF! now.
hope you made out like a bandit. if you did you ll get a promotion
to GAP bandit jr.
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heading into this new week players will get opportunities to
try to game an inondation of FED yakkers
July 15 (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan
Ready The shock shooting on Saturday of former President Donald Trump, who is seeking a return to the White House, is reverberating around world markets, with bets that the incident boosts his re-election chances steepening the Treasury yield curve and lifting stock futures first thing.