Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Morning INR update: Waning risk momentum

Teresa May announced early elections in June 2017, riding on a wave of populism. Polls suggest that her party has at least 20% points more support than the second party currently in the UK population. May wants to use this support to get higher number of seats in the Parliament, in order to ensure that Brexit negotiation with EU doesn’t get opposed in the house. This bodes well for UK’s negotiating ability with the EU, i.e., only if May wins a higher number of seats, which as of now looks likely.

The negative surprise in US data print continued with Industrial Production printing below consensus. US10Y yields have started showing the weakness in data but with little impact on equities till now. Euro zone CPI which has been steadily increasing on YOY basis can take the dollar index below 99.50 support.

USDINR 1m NDF is trading 4p left only indicating reduced selling in NDF markets. Yesterday we saw nationalized banks selling near 64.60 levels. Indian equity markets have started showing signs of weakness. Other EM currencies trade stable. CMP 64.56, Range 64.62-64.46.

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