- Indices from Asia-Pacific launched new week's trading higher. Nikkei and S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.5%, Kospi trades 0.6% higher and Nifty 50 trades flat. Indices from China trade 1.0-2.5% higher
- Strong gains in China were driven by property sector stocks. This comes after a weekend reports saying that Chinese developer Country Garden won approval to extend payments on onshore bonds
- European index futures point to a slightly higher opening of the cash session on the Old Continent today
- Liquidity on the markets may be thinner today, especially in the afternoon, as traders from the United States and Canada will be off to celebrate Labour Day holiday
- Money markets are pricing in less than a 10% chance of a 25 bp rate hike at September FOMC meeting, following NFP report that show a spike in unemployment rate
- ECB's Wunsch said that underlying inflation continues to be persistent and that more rate hikes will be needed
- Morgan Stanley is no longer expecting ECB to hike rates at its September meeting and instead thinks that ECB rate hike cycle is over already
- Moody's lowered its Chinese GDP growth forecast for 2024 from 4.5 to 4.0%. Forecast for 2023 was left unchanged at 5.0%
- Australian business inventories dropped 1.9% QoQ in Q2 2023
- Cryptocurrencies are trading higher today - Bitcoin gains trades flat, Ethereum gains 0.1%, Dogecoin adds 0.4% and Ripple jumps 1%
- Energy commodities pull back - oil drops 0.3-0.4% while US natural gas prices drop 2.5%
- Precious metals gains - gold, platinum and silver trades 0.3% higher while palladium rallies 0.9%
- AUD and GBP are the best performing major currencies while USD and JPY lag the most
CHN.cash is trading over 2.5% higher today, as sentiment towards the Chinese property sector improved. The index is currently testing a 6,500 pts resistance zone. Source: xStation5
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