Risk-On as Non-Farms disappoints

Currencies Direct September 10th 2012 - < 1 minute read

 

The close of last week saw highly anticipated data out of the US, the Non-Farm Payroll figure. The country added a measly 96k jobs to the economy, in August, against an expected figure of 125k. This is a sorry state of affairs for the Federal Reserve as they are not meeting their target of keeping jobless figures below 8%. However, this is seen as a bullish figure with the expectation within the markets of the announcement of further QE to be announced at the Federal Reserve meeting on Thursday this week.

Data out of China overnight revealed that exports and imports have continued to slow in an alarming sign to the government that further plans are needed to tackle the grave challenges that are facing the republic. This has led many economists to believe that further policy measures are needed and even led JP Morgan to lower their outlook for the Chinese GDP to 7.6% in 2012 and 8.3% 2013.

 

It looks like another tragedy for Greece with the Troika of lenders rejecting around €2bln of cuts and revenue generating measures from the government. Although the meetings are expected to last a few weeks it is another setback for the struggling country and, unexpected it maybe, without the signoff from the Troika then the next €31.5bln tranche will not be seen next month.

 

Friday saw GBP/USD breach the psychological level of 1.60 and EUR/USD hit above 1.27 both showing multi month highs on the back of the QE3 expectation from the Federal Reserve.

 

We have a very light day for data today with nothing of note that will set the wire alight.

 

Report by Ashley Skinner

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