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Daily Market Outlook
Fri, Oct 5 2007, 01:12 GMT
by AceTrader Team
AceTrader
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Market Review - 04/10/2007 22:26 GMT
Dollar retreats on a drop in U.S. factory orders The greenback fell against the euro as a drop in U.S. factory orders
suggested the housing recession is slowing the economy, however,
investors were reluctant to trade aggressively ahead of the important
Friday’s non-farm payrolls data which may give clues on whether the
Federal Reserve will cut interest rates for a second time later this
month. Interest-rate futures showed a 70% chance that the Fed will cut
interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.50% from 4.75% at its Oct. 31
meeting.
The single currency weakened briefly to 1.4067
after the European Central Bank kept its benchmark lending rate
unchanged at 4.00% as widely expected on concerns the U.S. housing
slump together with ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet who said risks to
European growth are weighted towards a weakening economy given the
backdrop of market uncertainty.
However, he expected
inflation to remain ‘significantly’ above 2 percent for the rest of
this year and in early 2008 before moderating, adding to speculation
that the ECB may still consider to increase interest rates later this
year once the current subprime mortgage crisis is over. Trichet also
urged politicians to show ‘verbal discipline’ when discussing the euro.
Fed Governor Frederic Mishkin said on Thursday that the euro's
appreciation is clearly ‘an issue for Europe right now’. The euro
recovered all its intra-day losses and rebounded to 1.4151 against the
dollar later in the day after the release of weaker-than-expected U.S.
factory orders data.
U.S. factory orders fell by 3.3% in
August (much weaker than the expectation of a decrease of 1.5%) after a
downwardly-revised 3.4% increase in July. The greenback retreated
strongly against the Swiss franc from 1.1815 to 1.1738 but traded
inside a range of 116.27-116.77 on Thursday.
The Bank of
England today left its benchmark interest rate at 5.75 percent, a
six-year high. The British rebounded strongly from 2.0277 to 2.0431 on
short-covering (some investors anticipated a cut in U.K. interest
rates) together with renewed cross buying in sterling especially versus
the euro and the Japanese yen.
Friday will see the release
of Japan’s leading indicators, Canada unemployment rate and the
important U.S. non-farm payrolls data, which is expected to show
100,000 jobs were added in September after a loss of 4,000 in August.
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