Category Archive: Forex

Fx Thoughts : There Was A Young Lady of Riga

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There was a young lady of Riga, Who rode with a smile on a tiger. They returned from the ride, With the lady inside And a smile on the face of the tiger.… Continue reading

SINGAPORE RATES WEEKLY : "SOR" The COE ?

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  FEB Retail Sales Ex Auto  +14.8% YoY FEB Retail Sales +15.8%  YoY vs expected +3% FEB Retail Sales -3.3% MoM MAR Electronic Exports +10.4% YoY vs expected +2% MAR Non Oil Domestic… Continue reading

Currency Wars : Chasing Bad News

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It’s been nothing but bad news on the US economic front with data mostly disappointing for the past 3 months.   Economic numbers have not been this bad since early 2009 and there… Continue reading

SINGAPORE RATES WEEKLY: SOR-RY FOR PARTY ROCKING

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LMFAO- Party Rock Anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8 (A nice lesson at the start of the video that depicts the situation with the central banks out there – monkeys see, monkeys do) I am not LMFAO… Continue reading

Bond Focus : Getting Ahead With Carry Trades

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This post was written for http://www.hnworth.com, a site targeting high net worth individuals in Singapore. Have fun reading ! ******************************** I was looking at my grandmother, who is a hundred, thinking about the… Continue reading

Australia Focus : Tears On My Pillow

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA-EcqOCRkI Enough bad news to bring out tears as iron ore and coal look grim and dismal with no respite in sight despite the global equity market euphoria led by the Chinese. RBA… Continue reading

FX Nostalgia Edition : Lest We Forget The 7 Year Itch

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Each April harkens back the final days of Bear Sterns back in 2008 when the company finally crumbled and succumbed to a forced sale, negotiated by the Federal Reserve, to JP Morgan at… Continue reading

SGD Rates Weekly : A Sibor For Your Thoughts

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1M LIBOR   0.17975% 3M LIBOR   0.27375% 6M LIBOR   0.40115% 2/4/15 Mar Purchasing Managers Index 49.6 vs expected 49.6 Mar Electronics Sector Index 50.1 vs previous 49.8 The SGD continued to strengthen… Continue reading

China In Focus : Keeping the Folks At Home Happy

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Chinese stocks left the world in their dust as they powered away to another record breaking week and sour grapes started questioning the average IQ of the average Chinese investors, somehow managing to… Continue reading

AUSTRALIA FOCUS : AUSTRALIA UNDER ATTACK

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It would be a fool’s quest to attack Australia and the last time anyone thought about it was during WWII and even the Japanese took a deep breath at that thought.  As for… Continue reading