Market Update – October 12 – London still the centre of the storm

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  • USDIndex – Dipped to 112.50 yesterday before reversing to 113.40, & 113.00 now. The UK’s new  fiscal policy remains squarely under threat as BOE’s Bailey reiterated that the BOE “will be out of the market by the end of the week”. However FT report this morning that the BOE signalled privately to bankers it may extend Bond-Buying, after the weekend. Sterling pressured and Gilts remain fragile. US Stocks (NASDAQ -1.10%) closed down again, Asian markets lower (Hang Seng -1.04%) & European FUTS lower. Biden claims there will be no US recession, doubts Putin will use the nuclear option and that there needs to be a re-evaluation of Saudi relationship.
  • EUR – trades over 0.9700 at 0.9725 from 0.9670 lows and 0.9770 highs yesterday.  
  • JPY – rallied through 146.00 today beyond “BOJ intervention” levels of September 20-22. Traded to 146.38 today. 
  • GBP – Sterling rallied and then reversed on Bailey comments to 1.0923 a new 10-day low, but retook 1.1000 following rally on FT article. Pressure on new PM Truss & Chancellor Kwarteng showing no signs of waning, more possible political U-turns.
  • Stocks – US stocks, were mixed but biased lower on Tuesday and closed down US500 -0.65%, -27.7 and breaking 3600 at 3588. UBER -10.42%, LYFT -12.02%, AMGN +5.72%. US FUTS trades at 3628 now. 

  • USOil – declined into $88.40, back to $89.65 & capped at $90.00. Polish pipeline operator PERN says leak detected in Druzba oil pipeline.
  • Gold – recovered from $1661-$1665 support zone to $1675 now but remains pressured.
  • BTC – also weighed by weak sentiment and a strong USD sank to $18.8K yesterday trades at $19.1k now.

Today – UK GDP (missed -0.3% vs. 0.1%) EZ IP, US PPI Final Demand, FOMC Minutes, G20 Finance Ministers’ meeting, Astana Summit, Speeches from BoE’s Haskel, Pill & Mann, ECB’s Lagarde, Fed’s Kashkari, Barr & Bowman

Biggest FX Mover @ (06:30 GMT) NZDJPY (-0.77%) rallied from 80.70 lows yesterday to 82.00 today. MAs aligned higher,  MACD histogram & signal line positive & rising, RSI 64.00 & rising, H1 ATR 0.236, Daily ATR 1.397. 

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Stuart Cowell

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