Some moods swirling around markets
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Yahoo Finance
Fed will ‘join the party,’ cut rates at some point in 2024
… the debate rages on over when the Fed will cut rates
(WSJ) EU Recommends Disciplinary Action Against France for Excessive Deficit
The Commission also backed action against Italy, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Malta for the same offense
The Commission, which polices the European Union’s budget rules, also backed action against Italy, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Malta for the same . Its recommendations will be considered by EU governments at a meeting next month.
(CNBC) And a message European peasants from IMF’ s kristalina:
Your productivity sucks: prepare to work ! and work harder !!
– Recent meetings Jordan referenced the role a strong CHF plays in fighting inflation.
– Current meeting Inflation forecasts lowered, significant chf strength noted, current inflation pressures are domestic service driven, int rates lowered with room for another cut in Q3.
That said, against a backdrop of global tensions not going away anytime soon probably implies the CHf won’t run away to the downside but imo has room to walk in that direction, and favorite liability ccy play.
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan
Wall Street returns from its midweek break to find record high stocks still chomping at the bit, with overseas monetary easing in focus as the Swiss cut interest rates for the second time this year and the Bank of England decision now awaited.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz to warn of an “all-out war” in which “Hezbollah will be destroyed, and Lebanon severely beaten.”
“The enemy knows that no place in the entire (state) is safe from our missiles, and it won’t be arbitrary. Everything will be deliberately targeted,” Nasrallah
This is an example of a currency where the chart shows momentum ti the doiwnside but raises the question whether it is a case of feeling bid in an offered market?
A break of 1.3662-80, should it occyr (noit a forecast) would answer that question.