Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: If our expectations for the economic and price outlook are realized, we will continue to adjust the intensity of easing policy.
Bank of Japan: Risks to the inflation outlook for fiscal 2024 and 2025 are tilted upward.
Deutsche Bank said some investor expectations closely tied to the market outlook may need to be corrected. Click to view...
The technical aspects of the daily external futures varieties are summarized, among which three varieties, including Brent crude oil, have short opportunities.
Gold Ten Futures Special CITIC Futures Comments: After the Spring Festival, the supply and demand of downstream building materials will rebound seasonally. At that time, silicon manganese is likely to follow the resumption of production, but the upward potential for production may not be as high as the previous round of production. The current too fast rise may overdraw some of the future "positive feedback on production". In addition, market rumors that Gabon's shipment volume to China in Febru...
EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook Report: WTI crude oil price is expected to be $70.31/barrel in 2025, compared with previous expectations of $69.12/barrel. Brent crude oil price is expected to be $74.31/barrel in 2025, compared with previous expectations of $73.58/barrel.
Fidelity Digital Assets pointed out in its 2025 outlook report that the Ethereum blob fee mechanism will strengthen network effects and is expected to promote the expansion of the Layer 2 ecosystem. The report highlights that Ethereum is prioritizing low-fee strategies to retain Layer 2 projects, with more vertical Layer 2 solutions expected to emerge in 2025. Members of the Ethereum Foundation say that near-zero fees are critical to sustaining the Layer 2 ecosystem, and network adoption growth ...
Fidelity Digital Assets said in its 2025 Outlook report that Ethereum outperforms Solana in the long term due to fundamental factors such as developer activity, total lock-up value (TVL), and stablecoin supply, but Solana has an advantage in the short term due to its rapidly growing transaction speed and low costs. The report points out that Solana's revenue and TVL are growing faster, but its trend of relying on memecoin trading is strong in a bull market and may weaken in a bear market. In con...
International oil prices jumped more than 3 per cent today as traders focused on potential supply disruptions and expectations of increased demand due to lower temperatures. Futures in the US and Burkina Faso are on track for weekly gains of 2.7 per cent and 3.2 per cent respectively, supported by the prospect of tougher US sanctions on Russia and Iran and a drop in Russian seaborne exports. "The US is expected to announce more sanctions against Russia in the coming days, which will exacerbate t...
The current outlook calls for a gradual and patient approach to rate cuts.
Federal Reserve Barkin: The underlying outlook for 2025 is positive, with more upside risks to growth than downside risks. Inflation is still not back to target and more work is needed.
The Fed's Barkin said the underlying outlook for 2025 was positive, with more upside risks to growth than downside risks. Inflation is still not back on target and more work is needed; there are some potential upside risks to inflation. The 2025 story will focus less on monetary policy and more on economic fundamentals and perhaps geopolitics.
The yen weakened against most other G10 and Asian currencies in morning trading on the prospect of a slow rate hike by the Bank of Japan in 2025. Market participants have pushed back expectations for the next rate hike by the Bank of Japan until March, Lloyd Chan, an analyst at MUFG, said in a research note. The senior FX analyst said they had expected the Bank of Japan to raise rates in December 2024 or January 2025. Meanwhile, the long-term US national...
ANZ Bank remains optimistic about the outlook for the US dollar in 2025, but the trend will be non-linear; at the same time, it is expected that the euro will fall further to this level before the end of the first quarter.
Golden Ten Futures December 26th news, polysilicon futures today listed on the Guangzhou Stock Exchange trading, the main contract (PS2506 contract) on the first day of listing hit the daily limit, is now slightly down, narrowed to 10.23%, according to Guotai Junan Futures analysis, in the short term, the market sentiment ferment, but in terms of fundamentals in December some downstream advance stocking consumption front, so that the downstream demand from January to February 2025 is weak, polys...