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Following on from a dovish Quarterly Inflation Report (QIR), attention in the UK will shift this week to the details of the February MPC minutes (Wednesday). Although the tone of the minutes are likely to echo key the messages emanating from the report – chiefly, that should the evolution of…

Concerns over fiscal sustainability continue to be a key driver of financial markets and have seen the flight from the euro, and pro-cyclical currencies in general, continue. European debt woes continue to attract the market’s attention and speculative investors have added to the record EUR shorts seen last week. As…

Following on from last week’s decision by the MPC to halt its programme of quantitative easing, attention will shift to the detail of its quarterly Inflation Report (published on Wednesday), which would have been a key input into the MPC’s deliberations. Key themes arising from the statement accompanying the policy…

Pay attention to the bond market. The ten year Treasury closed at 3.80% on Friday. It has risen 0.65% since November 27th. The yield curve difference between the two and ten year Treasury notes is the steepest on record. Thirty year fixed mortgages were 5.28% on Friday, up 0.32% in…

TRADERS should pay more attention when handling large orders to prevent market manipulation, according to the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday.
The bourse operator said trading members and representatives should query clients on orders that may ‘adversely impact the market’.
‘Trading members and trading representatives are free to employ different trading strategies,’ said the SGX in a note post… more

With continued upside failure the past week seeing the cross trading and closing lower for a second consecutive week on Friday, risk has turned to the 0.8970 level, its Nov 25’09 low with a loss of there turning attention to its Nov 17’09 low at 0.8832. The latter level is…

The currency markets have a newly enhanced obsession with statistics. Ten years ago economic statistics engaged the market two or three times a month. Major economic indicators like the United States International Trade Balance or the unemployment rate would command the speculative attention of the market and the occasional surprise…

The currency markets have a newly enhanced obsession with statistics. Ten years ago economic statistics engaged the market two or three times a month. Major economic indicators like the United States International Trade Balance or the unemployment rate would command the speculative attention of the market and the occasional surprise…

Oil slid Friday to its lowest price in a month as investors started to pay more attention to a yearlong slump in American energy demand.

That new HSBC loan: too clever by half?
Why not give customers the money outright?

By SIOW LI SEN

LAST Friday, when given the HSBC press release on its new Sibor plus equity-linked mortgage, I spent at least 15 minutes trying to figure out how it worked. The result was that I was so consumed with the promise of thousands of dollars that I paid no attention to the home loan itself.

Eventuall… more