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  • Asian stocks began the year in positive territory, supported by strong Chinese data
  • FX trade relatively sideways overnight with AUD the outperformer following Chinese manufacturing PMI
  • Looking ahead, highlights include Eurozone, UK and US manufacturing PMIs

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  • Both the House and Senate passed the stop-gap measure which would avert a shutdown and keep the government funded tspanough to January 19th
  • Unionist Citizens (anti-independence) party won the most seats in the Catalan Parliamentary Elections, although separatists groups collectively still retained a majority in Parliament and took 70 out of the 135-seat...
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  • Congress have passed tax reforms, focus now turns to avoiding a government shutdown by Saturday
  • BoJ maintained QQE with yield curve control and kept negative rates at -0.10% as expected
  • Highlights include US GDP, PCE, Philly Fed and Canadian CPI

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  • US House initially voted 227 vs. 203 to pass the tax reform bill. However, it was later reported that the House hit a procedural snag
  • US Senate voted 51 vs. 48 to approve the Republican tax bill as expected and sent the bill back to the House for a final vote
  • Looking ahead, highlights include the Riksbank rate decision, DoEs and NZ...
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  • Asian equity markets were mostly positive as the region followed suit from US with the GOP now seen to have secured enough votes for passage of the tax bill
  • EU's Barnier said that the UK cannot have a special deal for the City with Davis warning the EU that they cannot cherry-pick during trade talks
  • Looking ahead, highlights include German IFO, US...
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  • Asia equity markets began the week mostly positive following Friday’s gains on Wall St. where tax reform optimism buoyed all major indices to record levels
  • EU Brexit Chief Michel Barnier said the EU is not prepared to come up with a makeshift trade deal for the UK that knits together all the best bits of existing models
  • Looking...
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  • Asian stocks were mostly lower as a downbeat tone rolled over from Wall St, where sentiment was pressured on tax reform discord
  • ECB sources suggested that a minority of ECB rate setters wanted to signal guidance may change if inflation keeps accelerating
  • Looking ahead, highlights include US Industrial Production, Baker Hughes Rig Count and the Brussels...
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  • The FOMC hiked rates to 1.25% - 1.50%, as expected. Yellen failed to deliver any hawkish surprises while the rate path trajectory was kept broadly the same
  • The UK government was defeated in parliament in a 309-305 vote, meaning MP's will get a meaningful vote on the final Brexit deal
  • Looking ahead, highlights include ECB, BoE, Norges and SNB rate...
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ECB Monetary Policy Decision Due At 12:45 GMT, 13:45 CET, 07:45 EDT, On Thursday 14th December 2017, Press Conference Due At 13:30 GMT, 14:30 CET, 08:30 EDT

- Unanimous expectations look for the ECB to leave its tspanee key rates unchanged.

- As a reminder October’s announcement revealed that the Bank will be trimming its asset purchase programme to EUR 30bln per month from...
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Asian bourses failed to benefit from the record closes seen on Wall Street with Chinese stocks hampered by ongoing regulatory concerns

In FX, the greenback was firmer as both EUR/USD and GBP/USD languished near the prior day’s lows

Looking ahead, highlights include UK inflation, German ZEW and US PPI, supply from Germany and the US

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Asia equity markets traded subdued as momentum from Wall St where S&P 500 and DJIA posted fresh record closes, was lost on the region. ASX 200...
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  • UK PM May will insist that “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed” on the terms of Brexit after the Irish government claimed that last week's preliminary deal is binding
  • Asia equity markets began the week mostly positive after last Friday’s gains on Wall St
  • Looking ahead, highlights include US 3yr and 10yr auctions

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Asia equity markets began the...
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  • UK PM May plans go to Brussels early today to meet EU's Juncker and Tusk to finalize Irish border deal
  • Asia equity markets took the impetus from a positive tone in US where all indices finished higher and tech continued its rebound
  • Looking ahead, highlights include UK production numbers and the US jobs report

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Asia equity markets took the impetus from...
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  • Asia equity markets somewhat sspanugged off the subdued tone on Wall St and mostly rebounded from the prior day’s losses
  • EU's chief Brexit negotiator Barnier said UK has 48 hours to agree a text on potential deal over Irish border or else talks will not move on to the next phase
  • Looking ahead, highlights include US weekly jobs and potential comments from ECB’s...
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      • Asia equity markets were lower as the region followed suit from Wall St, where the major indices finished mostly lower
      • AUD/USD was pressured and gave up the 0.7600 handle after Australian Q3 GDP figures disappointed
      • Looking ahead, highlights include RBI and BoC rate decisions, ADP Employment, DoE’s and ECB’s...
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  • Asia equity markets were subdued following a similar close on Wall St where the S&P 500 and DJIA pulled back from intraday record levels
  • In FX, antipodeans stole the limelight in which NZD/USD briefly reclaimed 0.6900, AUD was underpinned by better than expected Retail Sales and an unsurprising RBA rate decision
  • Looking ahead, highlights include Eurozone, UK and US Services PMIs, US Trade, ISM Non-Mfg,...
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  • Asia stock markets traded mixed and lacked the firm conviction seen across US equity futures which were buoyed after the Senate voted to pass the tax bill
  • Safe-haven JPY weakened on outflows after the US Senate passed the tax plan which saw USD/JPY advance to within a whisker of the 113.00 handle
  • Looking ahead, highlights include US durables revisions, factory orders and UK PM May meets with Juncker and...
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      • Asia equity markets were choppy as the region counterbalanced the momentum from the record highs on Wall St. with disappointing Chinese Caixin Manufacturing PMI data
      • WTI crude was stable overnight and mildly nursed some of the losses from the prior session, where prices were dampened by the OPEC announcement
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  • Asia stock markets were mostly negative as the tech-sell off on Wall St. dampened sentiment in the region and overshadowed better than expected Chinese PMI data
  • UK is reportedly close to a deal regarding Northern Ireland, with officials said to predict an agreement within weeks
  • Looking ahead, highlights include German jobs report, Eurozone CPI, personal income, Chicago PMI, ECB’s Mersch, Praet and Fed’s...
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  • GBP/USD held firmly above the 1.3300 level following reports the UK and EU reached an agreement on the size of the Brexit divorce bill
  • The Senate Budget Committee approved the Republican tax reform plan which will now go to the Senate floor to be voted on
  • Looking ahead, highlights include regional and national German CPI, US GDP, DoE’s and a slew of central bank...
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  • Asian stocks were downbeat on what was a choppy session amid a lack of drivers
  • FX trade very quiet amid a lack of data releases and after Fed speakers failed to spur a sustained impact on prices
  • Looking ahead, highlights include BoE Stress Test Results, US Wholesale Inventories, BoE’s Carney, Fed’s Dudley, Powell and Harker

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  • Asian equities traded mostly lower despite Friday’s firmer close on Wall Street
  • In FX, commodity-linked currencies were mildly pressured as WTI crude pulled back from USD 59/bbl, which also coincided with the broad China-led weakness
  • Looking ahead, highlights include US New Home Sales

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Asia stocks took a turn for the worse and failed to sustain the...
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  • Asian equities traded with little in the way of firm direction with the Shanghai Comp. unable to stage any major recovery from yesterday’s sell-off
  • FX trade mostly resumed the consolidation observed during the Thanksgiving US market closure
  • Looking ahead, highlights include German IFO, ECB’s Coeure and Constancio

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Asia equity markets traded with an...
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  • FOMC minutes stated that concerns about inflation were widely shared with little else in the way of new information
  • A mixed tone was observed in Asia with the region indecisive amid holiday-quietened trade, in which Japan observed a national holiday
  • Looking ahead, highlights include Eurozone PMIs, UK GDP, ECB’s Praet, Coeure and US Thanksgiving

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