Danske Markets | Jul 16, 2019 04:30AM ET
Asian stocks are mixed this morning amid light volumes and few market drivers. Generally, risk sentiment has been quite supported in July. Yesterday, we published an FX Edge highlighting that efforts by the global central banks have led to easing of financial conditions, which should bode well for the global economy in the second half of 2019, especially supporting Scandi currencies, AUD, and JPY. For more details see FX Edge: H2 reflation set to drive high-beta currencies, support risk as well as our newly issued FX forecast update for July.
On Brexit, a Bloomberg story this morning is reporting that a meeting between chief UK and EU Brexit negotiators last week was one of the most difficult encounters of the last three years, according to European officials. According to the story the EU is looking into 'a package of measures that would aim to make it more palatable in the UK', as the EU is bracing itself for talks to become more hostile under the next British government, which will be formed after a new UK Conservative leader is elected next week.
Yesterday Turkey's new central bank governor signalled an impending interest rate cut at next week's meeting, arguing that the bank has 'room to manoeuvre' on monetary policy as inflation falls. The new governor also emphasised the importance of tackling inflation and promised to safeguard a 'reasonable rate of real return' for investors. Admittedly inflation has come down quite significantly to just over 15% in June, compared with 25.5% at the peak in October last year, while the central bank rate has remained at 24% since September. However, the problem is that the current inflation rate is quite far away from the central bank's target of 5%.
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