The announcements before the OPEC meeting in Vienna today continue at Full Speed. Ecuador's Oil Minister Carlos Perez said the global supply agreement is already approaching. OPEC and its partners, as claimed, do not expect them to take a decision to increase daily oil production by 1 million barrels Perez, 600 thousand barrels per day of production seems more likely to increase. The Nigerian petroleum minister said he hoped a consensus would be made today on the production decision, while he ho…
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EURusd overview
Yesterday, Italian Economy Minister Giovanni Tria, after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, “we are behind our commitment to stay in the euro,” Euro assets recovered from today's European PMI figures after the UP-and-coming attacks continued. Looking at the data released, the euro zone service and composite PMI came above forecasts, and Manufacturing PMI resulted in parallel with expectations. In Germany, the service and composite PMI figures were better than predicted, while manufa…
Brent oil
For some time, three main titles on pricing have come to the fore. U.S. oil production and price demands, sanctions against Iran and Venezuela, and the possibility of easing the OPEC-LED supply constraint. The eyes for Iran and Venezuela will be at the G7 Leaders ' Summit, which will begin today in Canada. Iran's OPEC administrator said today: no one at OPEC would accept US sanctions against two founding members (Iran and Venezuela), and warned that oil prices could reach 140 dollars if sanction…
USDjpy general analysis
USDJPY's decline in BOJ's super-bond purchase has made the yen valuable, while the USDJPY parities retreated up to 112.25 support. If we look at the dollar wing, both on the bond side and on the dollar index front, The direction is up. For this reason, adhesion on 112.25 is technically important.
FX Strategy
In the G10 currencies today, USD and NZD are among the top gainers while CHF and JPY are the worst performers. USD is firming today given strong manufacturing PMI numbers and unexpectedly high Adp employment change yesterday. AUD was also subdued following weak trade balance data overnight. Elsewhere, the German Retail sales reported unexpectedly strong numbers (2.3% actual vs 1.1% expected) but we may not see much of an EUR move before inflation rate later today. In the equities space, the Nikk…