Norges Bank announced daily NOK purchases in January of 1,000m

Danske Research Team Danske Bank A/S

Market movers today

It will be a quiet day today in terms of major economic data releases. Among other important data releases later this week, the December jobs report in the US is due out on Friday.

Selected market news

Over the weekend, PMI manufacturing figures in China for December were released. NBS PMI manufacturing December figures came out at 51.4 (slightly below consensus at 51.5) from 51.7 in November, having increased quite a lot in November. PMI from both the official NBS and the private Caixin index have been strong recently. While we look for some slowing of the Chinese economy in 2017, we expect it to remain strong in the short term, as a strong housing market and infrastructure boost in 2016 have yet to peak. There are early signs that the regional tightening towards housing is starting to work. The timing of the peak of the cycle is uncertain but we expect it to be in Q4/Q1.

On Friday last week, Norges Bank announced daily NOK purchases in January of 1,000m, i.e. an increase from the December pace of NOK900m. The purchases are related to the fiscal rule. The rise in purchases is not a big surprise as the 2017 rise in the fiscal use of petroleum funds together with lower oil revenues require Norges Bank to transfer a larger NOK amount from the petroleum fund and the State's Direct Financial Interest (denominated in FX). While the NOK purchases are not aimed at strengthening the NOK, the larger use of ‘oil money' is NOK positive and is one among several factors suggesting EUR/NOK will end 2017 lower than the current spot.

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