Goldman Sachs highlights China’s property sector negative feedback loop

Goldman Sachs on China, in brief from a video interview on CNBC, I’ve pulled out some points: consumption strength may be related to the singles day sales (November 11) remains…

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Federal Reserve speakers Thursday include Williams, Mester, Waller, and more

The times listed below are in GMT/US Eastern time layout: 1210/0710 Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr participates virtually in “Bank Supervision and Regulation” discussion before the Seventh…

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Australian data: Q3 PPI 1.8% q/q (prior 0.5%) 3.8% y/y (prior 3.9%)

That’s a very substantial q/q rise for the PPI. — The Producer Price Index (PPI) measures a change in input prices of raw, semi-finished or finished goods and services. If…

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IMF: Yen’s recent declines are driven by fundamentals, criteria not met for intervention

Alongside the surge in USD/JPY Japanese authorities have insisted, over and over again, that the rate should trade in a stable fashion ‘driven by fundamentals’. And over and over again…

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Australian September business confidence unchanged at +1

National Australia Bank Business Survey for September 2023 business confidence unchanged at +1, its third month in a row at this level business conditions +11, from +14 in August Highlights…

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Australian private survey September CPI 0.0% m/m (prior 0.2%)

Melbourne Institute monthly inflation gauge flat m/m prior +0.2% +5.7% y/y prior +6.1% For the trimmed mean, +0.1% m/m and +5.1% y/y prior +0.1% m/m and +5.7% y/y This indicator…

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Chinese authorities are investigating suspicious commodity trades

Bloomberg has the report saying Chinese authorities are accelerating a crackdown on some commodities transactions they view as offering little economic benefit: have escalated probes into trades they suspect are…

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ICYMI: JPMorgan artificial intelligence aims to decipher Fed speeches, give trade signals

Bloomberg reported on this earlier in the week, as did other outlets. JP Morgan analysts are experimenting with a ChatGPT-style language model to divine policy signals in Federal Reserve statements…

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North Korea not answering daily ‘hotline’ call from South Korea, fifth consecutive day

Yonhap with the report: North Korea remained unresponsive to daily routine calls with South Korea through an inter-Korean liaison communication channel for the fifth straight day Tuesday, according to Seoul’s…

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Markets in Hong Kong and China are closed for a holiday today

<p>A heads up for local holidays here in Asia. </p><ul><li>It's the Qingming Festival / Tomb Sweeping holiday. </li></ul> This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.

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