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January 11, 2024

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  • John Williams, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York yesterday said that monetary policy is now tight enough to nudge inflation back to the central bank’s target, however he suggested that officials need more evidence of cooling inflation before cutting interest rates. He said, “I expect that we will need to maintain a restrictive stance of policy for some time to fully achieve our goals, and it will only be appropriate to dial back the degree of policy restraint when we are confident that inflation is moving toward 2% on a sustained basis.”
  • The recent rhetoric of ‘higher for longer’ appears to still be in place with the Fed expected to hold interest rates unchanged when they meet later this month, giving policymakers time to evaluate the economy after aggressively raising rates from just above zero to over 5%. Markets continue to speculate as to when the first interest rate cut will come, with many suggesting rates will be left unchanged until around June, however a March cut cannot be ruled out.
  • We will look for more clues on the timing of possible Fed easings, as markets eagerly await the release of the December CPI report later today. The headline inflation rate is expected to tick up to 0.2%, boosting the annual rate to 3.2% from the previous 3.1%.

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  • Both the pound and the euro posted gains against the greenback with the dollar index dropping a touch whilst remaining within its recent narrow range. EURUSD is consolidating just below the psychological 1.10 level and cable is sitting close to its recent high of 1.2771 with both seeking direction from this afternoon’s data release.

Economic Calendar

11 Jan 2024
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AUD - Goods Trade Balance
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JPY - Leading Indicators
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EUR - ECB Economic Bulletin
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EUR - Italian Industrial Production m/m
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CNY - New Loans
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CNY - M2 Money Supply y/y
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GBP - Housing Equity Withdrawal q/q
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USD - Core CPI m/m
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USD - CPI m/m
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USD - CPI y/y
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USD - Unemployment Claims
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USD - Natural Gas Storage
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USD - 30-y Bond Auction
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USD - Federal Budget Balance
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JPY - Bank Lending y/y
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JPY - Current Account

Market Indicators

Currency Pairs
Pair High Low
eur/gbp 0.86106 0.85987
gbp/usd 1.27741 1.27442
gbp/aud 1.90211 1.89834
gbp/nzd 2.04657 2.04109
usd/jpy 145.778 145.279
eur/usd 1.09884 1.09729
gbp/jpy 185.849 185.427
eur/cnh 7.8834 7.8652
usd/cnh 7.18376 7.16289
Equities and Commodities
Nasdaq 100 16872
DOW 37802.1
S&P 500 4799.16
BRENT CRUDE 77.44
WTI 71.96
GOLD 2034.92

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About Simon Walker

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Simon Walker is head of the GPS Capital Markets trade desk in our London office where he is responsible for covering market risk in European hours. He has over 25 years’ experience in foreign exchange, working in both sales and trading.

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