Friday, 13 May 2016

Overnight and The Day Ahead - Friday 13th May

Good Morning,

Yesterday was about the ‘Proud Pound’ Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, was unambiguous about the EU referendum; ‘Brexit’ would lead to a loss of jobs, a fall in the value of the pound and ultimately lead to a ‘technical recession’ - 6 months of falling growth. Has he overstepped the mark and become a political Governor, in his role he is supposed to be politically impartial. He believes he has the right to speak frankly about the economy and Brexit carries the risk of recession.

Stocks – The Nikkei is down 1%, nothing specific - the news that Nissan and Mitsubishi reached agreement lead to a surge of 16% in the Mitsubishi share price yesterday, today it is down 4%.

Oil is having a good week opening at 46.20, this is up 7% from the Monday open, we get the Baker Hughes Oil rig count later today

Gold opens at 1272, the range this week has been 1257 -1281.

We had Retail Sales data out of New Zealand overnight, coming in slightly weaker than expected at 0.8% QoQ and the currency dipped below 0.6800, 0.6793 the low.
Today in the US we get Retail Sales, Producer prices, the Michigan consumer sentiment and business inventories.
  
Why is Friday 13th considered unlucky? One theory is that Thomas W Lawson’s popular novel ‘Friday, the Thirteenth’ published in 1907 contributed to disseminating the superstition.
In the novel, an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.

Good Luck today and enjoy your week end.

Anish S. Lal – VP Sales
FX & Precious Metals, Atom8 Financial Services LLP
2nd Floor, Centenary House, Palliser Road, London W14 9EQ, UK
T: +44(0)20 3405 3910 | M: +44 (0)7983701816 | anish.lal@atom8.com | www.atom8.com

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