Forex trading headlines for Asia Friday March 21 2014
- New Zealand February job advertisements +3.7% m/m
- China Securities Journal: China may release measures to promote consumption
- Australia – Conference Board Leading Index for January: +0.2% (prior was +0.8%)
- Germany’s Merkel: Escalation in Ukraine will result in economic sanctions
- China Securities Journal: China NDRC sees no default risk yet in corporate bonds
- Turkey has blocked Twitter – Turkish PM Erdogan threatened to close it down ahead of a key
- New Zealand – ANZ Consumer confidence index for March: 132.0 (prior was down 2.1% to 133.0)
- New Zealand Credit card spending, February: +0.3% m/m (prior was +1.0%)
Fitch revises Outlook on Russia to Negative from Stable and affirmed ‘BBB’
Do not adjust your screens, those horizontal ranges you see are all that happened on a muted, Japanese market holiday session. GBP, EUR, CHF … all very quiet and range-bound.
USD/JPY had a minuscule drift lower.
AUD/USD popped a few stops above 0.9050 and consolidated there,
USD/CNY mid-point was set higher than yesterday, and traded above there.