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What you need to know before the markets open: Chinese data a positive for Asia open

  • UK polls blur a likely victory for the Tory party which leaves the pound exposed.
  • Chinese data is a plus for risk-fx at the start of the week.
  • US Nonfarm Payrolls comes back to the foreground.  

The American dollar was the strongest last week, yet we now enter the grand finale, so to speak, given the psychology  of the market as US traders return and take-on the latest antagonistic  move from their own US administration which hegemonically  inked into practice  a severe interference in Hong Kong affairs. The Chinese have regarded this as a direct hit as to their internal  affairs    – retaliating  in kind. China has responded and said that they will take “strong countermeasures.”

Meanwhile, sterling is likely a muted trade considering the latest  conflicting polls from reports in the weekend news. On the one hand, we have the latest opinion  poll for the  Observer  that gives the Tories a 15-point lead over Labour with less than a fortnight until polling day, stating that the gap has narrowed by four points since a week ago. At the same time, we have a  Savanta ComRes survey for The Sunday Telegraph that puts the Conservatives on 43 per cent, as a two-point rise since early last week –  Writing in  The Sunday Telegraph,  Sir John Curtice,  the veteran psephologist, said the findings suggested that an “apparent erosion of the Conservative position may now have come to a halt.”

Risk-on

Heading over to domestic data from the weekend, we had  Chinses official PMIs for November which beat estimates and arrived higher than in October, giving a bit of a backbone to risk-on from the off today. It is going to be somewhat  reassuring, relatively whereby global growth data is being heavily scrutinised, that the Chinese  manufacturing PMI came in at 50.2 and into expansion territory for the first time since April this year. We had  expected a 49.5 result vs the prior 49.3. Additionally, the  Services (non-manufacturing) improved from a  prior 52.8 to a  54.5, a seven-month high    – it was expected 53.1 and as a sure bid for the Aussie ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia, (RBA, this week. which is widely expected that the RBA will remain  on hold.

Elsewhere in the land of commodity-fx, we have the  Bank of Canada’s interest rate decision. Central  banks are regarded as a muted play on the day though, yet a keen  focus will centre on  the  tone of  the  statement this time around. “We do not expect them to say much;  the  Bank may acknowledge recent strength in business investment and positive GDP revisions, but forward-looking components will keep an emphasis on data dependence,” analysts at TD Securities argued.  

Nonfarm Payrolls back in focus for USD

Typically, attentions will then move to the US jobs report. Nonfarm Payrolls will be the highlight of the week. Payrolls are expected to come in at  200k for the month of    November. Analysts at TD Securities remains  with a view of an  encouraging above-consensus  128k October print. The analysts  expect wages to rise 0.3% MoM, leaving  the  annual rate unchanged at 3.0% YoY.

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