Salient to Investors: Richard Fisher at FRB of Dallas said fiscal discord has undermined the case for tapering bond purchases, which tend to debase the dollar. Richard Franulovich at Westpac Banking said tapering is looking less and less likely, and sees an opportunity in the next few months for currencies
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Vincent Reinhart at Morgan Stanley said investors are the little white lab rabbits in the central bank experiments. Gilles Moec at Deutsche Bank said the potential for the dialog between the central banks and the market to fail is significant. Nathan Sheets et al at Citigroup said the UK
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Mansoor Mohi-uddin at UBS said the euro and pound will weaken to $1.20 and the pound will fall to $1.41, more than 3-year lows against the dollar, by year-end 2013 as the commitment by the ECB and the BoE to keep interest rates low for extended periods. Mohi-uddin said policy
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Ian Stannard at Morgan Stanley says the British pound’s subdued response to recent signs of UK growth points to declines to $1.45 by the end of Q3 and to $1.41 by the end of 2013. Stannard said the UK services sector is the most important part of the UK economy
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Michael Amey at Pimco said sell the pound as it may drop to a 4-year low of $1.37 during Mark Carney’s tenure at the BoE because he will want to see it decline, while a similar move against the euro is unlikely because of the euro bloc’s challenges.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bruce Stout at Aberdeen Asset Mgmt says: Optimism is too high for stocks and bond yields are too low His fund’s fixed-income holdings are at the lowest level in 25 years. The main problem is trying to get yield in a world where there is no yield, but
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Arne Rasmussen at Danske Bank said the outlook for the UK economy and the pound are bad and today’s jobs data is disappointing. Rasmussen says investors should not underestimate the possibility the BOE will act aggressively to support growth, and expects the pound to fall much further. Mike Amey
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: George Soros said: China has a couple of years to control risks as t he rapid growth of shadow banking is disturbingly similar to the subprime-mortgage market in the US that caused the financial crisis of 2007-2008. China can keep its current economic growth model for another year
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Stephen Jones at Kames Capital bought US Treasuries without a currency hedge, saying the pound will decline further against the dollar, and the prospect of the pound rallying is remote. Kames expects the Fed to keep its monetary stimulus. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-13/pound-extending-drop-leads-kames-to-buy-treasuries-without-hedge.html Free email alerts of articles as soon as
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Neil Jones at Mizuho Corporate Bank said people are looking to buy the dollar against the most vulnerable currencies, currently the pound and yen. Jones cited much uncertainty about the U.K. economic outlook. Scott Thiel at BlackRock said it sold the Pound after the Bank of England left
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