Famous veterans stepped down quietly after louder Brexit election campaign

The UK election this month was mostly about Brexit while NHS is also one of the biggest interest of the people. The outcome, Tory's decisive majority, implies that the serial decisions will be made far quicker than before the election.

Looking at the parliament from a side way, some famous members have left the House of Commons as a result of the election or own wills. Even before the election, John Bercow had resigned as a Speaker, and Lindsay Hoyle, the former deputy speaker, was designated as a new Speaker.
sky news: Sir Lindsay Hoyle wins race to replace John Bercow as Speaker in House of Commons

Kenneth Clarke, the Father of the House until Nov 2019, retired after 50 years in politics. Like other former veteran MPs, we could expect to hear his voice through the media or public speeches perhaps.

The Guardian: Boris Johnson should 'stop campaigning and start governing', says Ken Clarke

Dennis Skinner, a veteran Labour politician since 1970, also known as Beast of Bolsover, has been defeated by the Tory candidate. Dennis Skinner has served as MP for almost a half century and is older than Kenneth Clarke who stepped down as mentioned. 

BBC News: General election 2019: How Dennis Skinner lost his Bolsover seat

Philip Hammond, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, stepped down as a MP at the election. He has strongly opposed to "No-deal" Brexit. It implies that he was presumably uncomfortable with the recent Tory leadership that does not rule out crashing out of EU without the deal.

The Guardian: No-deal Brexit would be a betrayal, says Philip Hammond

Their resignations are because of their different reasons and wouldn't simply be attributed to a devision in the country. However, the veterans who have served for the last decades had some senses of unity, and they left the parliament. Hopefully, UK will be more united again in coming years.

Mr.Johnson won decisive majority, but the market doesn't look optimistic enough?

[EURGBP is approaching the level near Brexit referendum 2016]

The UK election yesterday resulted a big trophy for Tory and Mr.Johnson, and British pound scarcely reacted stronger before the exit polls released. While the FX market responded optimistically as concerns over the hung parliament faded away, it doesn't mean No-deal Brexit is ruled out from the plan.

On the Brexit day which is no later than 31-Jan-2020, UK actually doesn't get Brexit done, but they just start the trade talk with EU. The trade deal is expected to be agreed and ratified by Dec-2020, otherwise the consequence could be No-deal Brexit on Jan-2021 unless the extension is given.

Observing EURGBP market, GBP moved stronger yesterday but it is still weaker than the level before Brexit referendum 2016. It also implies that the market cannot be as optimistic as it was before the referendum. Perhaps, No-deal possibility is still priced in.

Ref. BBC News: Brexit: What happens now?

European Banks continue cutting jobs

It has been for about two years since I summarized job cut announcements by European banks. These days, the glooming trend still continues with a bunch of job cut announcements from large European banks.
As mentioned in the past post, digitalization play a role to automate the internal processes which were once handled by the employees whose salaries were relatively higher. More and more you get benefit from your retail banking on your smart phones or laptops, banking jobs not only of traditional services at the local branches, but also the intermediate process such as risk assessment are tightened. (Perhaps, no longer needed.)  This phenomenon seems be irreversible, and therefore this is considered as a structural change in the banking industry. Where the bankers goes after dropping out?

As if joining to the trend, the car industry is also about to squeeze jobs, attributing to a rise of the electric vehicles. A recent story tells that Audi plans massive job cuts in their home country Germany, a champion of the industry.

BBC: Audi to cut 9,500 jobs to fund electric car push
Carmaker Audi is to cut 9,500 of its 61,000 jobs in Germany between now and 2025 to make more money available for electric vehicles and digital working.
The cuts - which aim to save €6bn (£5.1bn) - will be achieved through an early retirement programme.
But the Volkswagen-owned firm also said its move into electric cars would mean the creation of up to 2,000 jobs.
It comes less than a fortnight after Daimler said it would cut more than 1,000 jobs by the end of 2022.
The car industry is facing a downturn in key markets, including China, as well as increased costs as it meets tougher European Union emissions regulations and the costly switch to electric vehicles. Audi saw falling sales, revenues and operating profits in the first nine months of 2019.

And some stories of job cut announcements in banking industry, too.

FT: Europe’s banks slash 60,000 jobs as outlook turns negative

Bloomberg: Global Bank Job Cull Tops 75,000 This Year as UniCredit Cuts

IBT: Italy's Largest Bank In Trouble? UniCredit To Layoff 8,000 Jobs Amid Western Europe Struggles

Some says it is "Japanification", the deja vu which Japan have experienced decades of economic stagnation. But we are facing structural changes in the industries rather than the market bubble. In Europe, it seems be even worse than Japanese deja vu in the last decade.

UK election and GBP on 12-Dec-2019

UK election is ahead on 12-Dec-2019, which held first time on December since 1923.
According to the latest polls, it predicts Tory's majority while it's not comfortable enough to avoid a hung parliament.

Evening Standard: UK opinion polls: Conservatives set for majority of 28... but hung parliament possible as support drops
YouGov has interviewed approximately 100,000 people about their voting intentions in the past seven days.
It said the margin of error could put the final number of Tory seats anywhere between 311 and 367, suggesting a hung Parliament cannot be ruled out.
Sterling fell by around a third of a cent against the US dollar after the news. Financial markets fear a hung parliament would extend the uncertainty over if or when Britain will leave the European Union, which it is currently due to do on January 31,

As mentioned on the above story, outcome of the hung parliament will drag GBP down sharply as the uncertainty over Brexit consequence.
EURGBP is currently near the level after the Brexit referendum 2016.
If British constituencies successfully avoid the hung parliament, the Tory's Brexit deal is expected to be passed before 31-Jan. (some days of technical extension maybe in the worst case.) In this case, GBP will be stronger, approaching toward the level before the Brexit referendum (EURGBP below 0.80).
If it resulted as a hung parliament, EURGBP could jump to around 0.90 - 0.92 up to the highest in 2019.

In the meantime, today's trend and momentum of EURGBP indicates the upward direction in a coming week including the UK election date, which implies the possible hung parliament outcome...
While we recommend to watch out the latest polls, it is also interesting to see if the indicator still reasonably work under the critical event against the market. Let's see tomorrow.


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Swiss Franc could surge in a coming week? Trend and Momentum 26-Nov-2019

Looking at the latest trend and momentums of EURCHF and USDCHF, they are expected to be into downward trend which means Swiss Franc will be relatively stronger against both Euro and US Dollar.

EURCHF Trend and Momentum

USDCHF Trend and Momentum

On this Wednesday, ZEW (Centre for European Economic Research) will publish their survey expectations which consist of business conditions, employment conditions and the other factors in Switzerland. (ZEW Survey - Expectations)

If the actual figure beat the market consensus or expectation, it would be positive for Swiss Franc, which could lead the currency more bullish Of course, in case the figure disappointing the market, Swiss Franc can be into bearish trend. The point is that ZEW publication on Wednesday is a remarkable one which could affect Swiss Franc fundamentally.

Regarding US Dollar, much more economic events are on ahead in coming days. (See the economic calendar on QROSS X). Perhaps, USDCHF can be more volatile than EURCHF in a coming week.


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Canadian Dollar trend reversed shortly even though BoC turned to be dovish stance? 2-Nov-2019

Canadian Dollar (CAD) has weakened against major currencies including GBP and EUR in the last week. Bank of Canada kept the interest rate at 1.75% while they turned dovish, concerning about global trade conflict.

Reuters: Canadian dollar hits two-week low as Bank of Canada takes dovish turn
Canada’s central bank held interest rates steady at 1.75% as expected but left the door open to a possible cut over the coming months to help the economy weather the damaging effects of global trade conflicts.

“The loonie has sold off post-statement due to the fact that the BoC is beginning to witness the effects of external headwinds on the Canadian economy,” said Simon Harvey, FX market analyst for Monex Europe and Monex Canada.

The central bank’s “dovish stance” raises expectations for policy easing, “especially if the economic data and external climate deteriorates further,” Harvey said.

Money markets moved to fully price in a rate cut as early as July. Before the announcement, chances of a cut next year were seen at less than 50%. BOCWATCH

It seems that expectations of the rate cuts next year is taken into account in the price, and BoC still kept 'Neutral' stance on the rates. Natural bounce back can be expected shortly against the overheated mood in FX market. (Of course, there is a possibility BoC may withdraw neutral stance, changing to pessimistic as their concerns in the future.)

BNN Bloomberg: Bank of Canada holds rates, warns economy will be 'tested'
The statement and the fresh batch of more pessimistic growth forecasts will raise questions about the central bank’s commitment to a neutral stance on rates, particularly in the face of global easing in many other countries that has made the Bank of Canada an outlier. If the Federal Reserve lowers its interest rates later today, as expected, the Bank of Canada would have the highest policy rate in the industrialized world.

In the meantime, our trend and momentum signals indicate CAD surging against GBP and EUR in a coming week.

GBPCAD Trend and Momentum

EURCAD Trend and Momentum

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Swiss Franc (CHF) bullish in a coming week? Trend and Momentum on 5-Jul-2019

As a result that Switzerland and EU failed to agree on their future relationship, the investors of each economy are not able to trade stocks listed on each other's stock exchange since last Monday. While the impact for the long term is still not clear, some says there is no immediate impact on Swiss side and EU maybe more badly affected. Another source says high frequency traders will be the most affected badly.

>> [SWI] Has the EU scored an own goal with Swiss stock exchange freeze?
>> [Bloomberg] Swiss Stocks Trade Smoothly on Day One Without EU Recognition

In the meantime, some trend and momentum of CHF indicates that CHF could surge in a coming week. Picked up some better fitted ones, here is the trend and momentum of CHFJPY and USDCHF respectively.

[CHFJPY]

[USDCHF]

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US Dollar surging as its trade tension with China eased 1-Jul-2019

After G20 conference in Osaka, US Dollar has been surging against other currencies as the market sees US's trade tension with China eased.
>> CNBC: Dollar advances to 2-week high after US-China trade tensions ease

The below charts describe AUDUSD and EURUSD respectively since the late last week.

[AUDUSD]

[EURUSD]

On 27-Jun last week, we picked up the Trend and Momentum for AUDUSD and EURUSD. Maybe coincident? or the signal just worked? Who knows...

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US Dollar bullish shortly? Trend and Momentum on 27-Jun-2019

For the last few months, the world have been in geopolitical turbulence, consisting of US-China trade tension and US-Iran relation symbolically. UK's new prime minister will be designated by the end of July, while the recent poll indicates Mr.Boris Johnson is more likely to be a new PM than the foreign secretary Mr.Jeremy Hunt.

>> UK’s next prime minister — who are the lead candidates?

Let's shift the gear to technical matters, USD is expected to surge in a coming week according to the Trend and Momentum. The signal is more particularly observed in AUDUSD and EURUSD.

AUDUSD

[AUDUSD Trend and Momentum as of 27-Jun-2019]

EURUSD

[USD Trend and Momentum as of 27-Jun-2019]

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Australian Dollar surging in a coming week? Trend and Momentum on 30-Apr-2019

Australian Dollar (AUD) 's performance has been bearish for about last two weeks against some major currencies CAD or USD while NZD has been even weaker since the end of March.

Australian economy fairly depends on Chinese economy which is under pressure, and the second biggest economy could drive Australian economy and the value of its currency.

As a matter of technical indicators for the short term, the Trend and Momentum are indicating AUD could be surging in a coming week, and quick downturn after surging is also anticipated.

AUDCAD

[AUDCAD Trend and Momentum as of 30-Apr-2019]

AUDUSD

[AUDUSD Trend and Momentum as of 30-Apr-2019]

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Japanese Market sleeping for a coming Golden week, USDJPY vs N225

This year, Japanese people have the longest consecutive national holidays for 10 days, and it started today. Tokyo market will have been closed for next week and on Monday in another week after the next. While Japanese stock market is closed, Forex market is opened in the world and the price naturally moves in Japanese Golden week.

As many investors who look at Japanese market know, N225 and USDJPY are positively correlated though the correlation has been relatively lower than before. Still, compared with other markets, for example FTSE100 vs GBPUSD, CAC40 vs EURUSD or DAX vs EURUSD, the two indexes of N225 and USDJPY have always positive correlations for a reasonable time frame (e.g. 1 year).

The point of this Japan's holiday season is how N225 moves on the first business day after the Golden week, 7-May-2019. Let's have a look at the historical correlation between N225 vs USDJPY, whose correlation period is 250 points for each.

[USDJPY and N225 for last 5 years]

[250 days Correlation USDJPY vs N225]

The current correlation (250D) is at around 40%. Whatever this number is considered, it could anticipate N225 after the holidays follows the direction of USDJPY for next week. USDJPY's latest closing is at around 111.60. Japanese investors would hope the market not to be volatile drastically...

The one side correlation seems be particular in Japanese market, and it is not for some other markets. In European markets, the stock indexes and exchange rates are correlated actually, but the correlation moves in positive as well as negative territories.
Look at other examples in European markets, the below figures describe the correlation between FTSE100 vs GBPUSD.

[GBPUSD and FTSE100 for last 5 years]

[250 days Correlation GBPUSD vs FTSE100]

And the correlation between CAC40 vs EURUSD and DAX vs EURUSD. (Correlation figure only)

[250 days Correlation EURUSD vs CAC40 and DAX respectively]

Their latest correlations are positive, but the numbers are varied from time to time more than Japanese market. However, Europeans do not have such Golden week anyway...

Review of New Zealand Dollar for last 3 days

Having recently posted an article about NZD forecast, we review those forecasts of NZDCAD, NZDUSD and NZDJPY which were picked up.

Although some of them once downed further, NZD has reverted against the downward trend for the past two weeks. It proves nothing in fact as no one can predict the future market at 100% surely. For the traders and our App users, it encourages that better fitted analysis would lead to more precise forecast.
Figures of those three FXs in Forecast vs Realized market are described as below. NZDCAD had downed a little bit more sharply at the analysis, and it seemed to have less room to deepen further for last 3 days.

[NZDCAD Forecast vs Realized market]

NZDCAD Trend & Momentum on 23-Apr-2019

NZDCAD 23 to 26-Apr-2019 (TradingView)

[NZDUSD Forecast vs Realized market]

NZDUSD Trend & Momentum on 23-Apr-2019

NZDUSD 23 to 26-Apr-2019 (TradingView)

[NZDJPY Forecast vs Realized market]

NZDJPY Trend & Momentum on 23-Apr-2019

NZDJPY 23 to 26-Apr-2019 (TradingView)

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NZD reviving in a couple of weeks? Trend and Momentum on 23-Apr-2019

NZD has sharply fallen since the late of last month. Particularly, NZDUSD has been downed by about 3.5%, and NZDCAD by 3.8% respectively.
It might have been a tricky situation in the forex market in this April, not just only for NZD but also for CHF which experienced a worst month since 2017 according to Bloomberg.

[Bloomberg] Franc Set for Worst Month Since 2017 Means SNB ‘Sleeps Easier’
The franc is headed for its worst month in almost two years, bringing relief to Swiss policy makers seeking a weaker currency in their quest to revive inflation.

The currency has lost about 2.5 percent of its value against the euro this month, a depreciation not matched since July 2017. The drop is spurring a re-think among some analysts, who are looking to revise their currency forecasts given the collapse in market volatility that has failed to boost demand for haven currencies.

In the meantime, the Trend and Momentum signals indicate NZD could revive in a coming week. The signals against USD, CAD and JPY.

NZDUSD Trend and Momentum on 23-Apr-2019

NZDCAD Trend and Momentum on 23-Apr-2019

NZDJPY Trend and Momentum on 23-Apr-2019

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Brexit meaningful vote is soon 12-Mar-2019

After the Brexit negotiation between UK and EU yesterday, MPs are going to vote for Mrs.May's deal tonight.
In spite of the yesterday's agreement that the alternative arrangement for Irish backstop has to be made by December 2020, the agreement seems to be guaranteed from the legal perspective.
GBP once jumped at the yesterday's press conference, GBP dived today and GBPUSD now stays a little lower level before the press conference.

GBPUSD

If the deal is rejected tonight's vote, it is likely to vote if UK proceed with Hard Brexit or extend the Brexit date though the extension won't guarantee preventing from Hard Brexit. According to Mr.Juncker, the president of European Commission, there is no more room to negotiate. It implies the market could foresee Hard Brexit in case of rejection against Mrs.May's deal at tonight's vote.

It's worth to prepare for the possibility of Flash Clash tonight.

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USD downward trend in a coming week?

ECB's (dovish) decision shocked Forex market yesterday as their negative outlook to the European economy and geopolitical uncertainties over the world, such as Brexit, US-China trade war, ...

On the other hand, in short term horizon, USD have been relatively stronger for a last couple of week against major currencies JPY, CHF, AUD, NZD, GBP and EUR of course. Our trend and momentum signals indicate this bullish USD could get bounce back. In the next week, more stories about Brexit anticipated, the market could turn more negative mood. If it is, JPY or CHF which are traditionally safe asset in bearish market can be relatively stronger in the negative market.

Here are some of snapshots from the trend and momentum charts. Those are as of the beginning of today (UTC).

[GBPUSD Trend and Momentum 8-Mar-2019]

[AUDUSD Trend and Momentum 8-Mar-2019]

[EURUSD Trend and Momentum 8-Mar-2019]

EURUSD jumped after yesterday's ECB decision.




[NZDUSD Trend and Momentum 8-Mar-2019]

[USDCHF Trend and Momentum 8-Mar-2019]

[USDJPY Trend and Momentum 8-Mar-2019]

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Upcoming (Geo)political events (Brexit, Elections)

Brexit, US-NorthKorea summit, US-China trade war,... Several geopolitical uncertainties are surrounding the global economy. Here is just a list of upcoming events that could fluctuate the market in coming months. Some more events maybe added.

12-Mar-2019 The meaningful vote on Brexit deal (Downing Street insists)
 Guardian: Brexit meaningful vote will go ahead, says No 10, despite talks stalling
 >> Downing Street said the talks had been “difficult”, but stressed the vote would take place on Tuesday, as committed by May. If it is lost, MPs will vote on successive days on whether to block a no-deal Brexit and whether to extend the departure date.

29-Mar-2019 Brexit or the departure date extended?
>> After the meaningful vote on the Brexit deal, It will be clear whether Brexit happens on 29-Mar or is delayed.

9-Apr-2019 Israeli general election
>> The current PM Mr.Netanyahu is facing accusation of corruption, who have been PM since 2009. 

28-Apr-2019 Spanish general election
>> The right wing populist party Vox is rising while People's Party (PP) which is the current majority is likely to struggle. The centrist party Ciudadanos have not seemed to appeal enough to get majority at the parliament.

23 and 26-May-2019 European Parliament election
 The Economist: Volt wants to become the first pan-EU political party
 >> Volt, now has thousands of members across 30 countries (the eu28 plus Albania and Switzerland), and will run in the European Parliament elections next year. On October 27th about 450 delegates met in Amsterdam to approve the party’s programme, in a sea of youthful optimism and multilingual policy wonkery.

GBP against AUD, CAD and NZD in a few coming days. Follow the Brexit issues.

Once we have continuously picked up Trend and Momentum analysis from the list of FX. (You will find all of them on our website or Android app)
Those were just the examples which are expected to help users to understand how to see the Trend and Momentum indicators. Since our last update was long while ago, it seems be harder to find our articles in old days. It's probably reasonable to update some examples in the latest market now.

According to the update on the beginning of 22-Feb (UTC), the analysis result had indicated downward trend in GBPAUD, GBPCAD and GBPNZD. Those have downed by approx 0.40%, 0.60% and 0.55% respectively. While the momentary backlash would be likely, the Trend and Momentum still shows further room to downward.

[GBPAUD Trend and Momentum on 22-Feb-2019 UTC]

Last closed at 1.831.
Analyzed bottom by 1.80 (-1.69%).







[GBPCAD Trend and Momentum on 22-Feb-2019 UTC]

Last closed at 1.714.
Analyzed bottom by 1.70 (-0.82%).







[GBPNZD Trend and Momentum on 22-Feb-2019 UTC]

Last closed at 1.90.
Analyzed bottom by 1.88 (-1.05%).







It's just a reminder that GBP would be sensitive to Brexit issues including some speculations. A new Brexit deal is expected to be reached by 26-Feb next week. Otherwise, Theresa May would return to House of Common for further discussion with MPs.

[BBC] Brexit: What happens now?
If the EU were to agree to changes and MPs backed the adjusted deal, that would be a great result for Theresa May.

But senior EU politicians have said they will not reopen the legal text of the withdrawal agreement that they negotiated with the UK.

If MPs aren't satisfied with any adjusted deal put before them they could reject it again. Theresa May has also promised that even if she can't get the changes she's after, she would return to the House of Commons yet again on 27 February and allow MPs a further day of debate.


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