Archive for December, 2015

European Job Growth Stronger Than Anticipated

Tuesday, December 1st, 2015

Via the FT: The jobs just keep coming. Eurozone unemployment fell further than expected in November, dropping to a three-year low of 10.7 per cent. That's the lowest since January 2012, and beat forecasts of 10.8 per cent unemployment rate. Across the whole EU, unemployment remained steady at a six-year low of 9.3 ...

Early FX

Tuesday, December 1st, 2015

FX musings via Kit Juckes at SocGen: <http://www.sgmarkets.com/r/?id=hf3fb478,1503438f,15034390&p1=136122&p2=903639a15694063481dce251e25fa6cd> We're ticking off the headline-grabbing events of the week, without markets doing anything very dramatic. The RMB will be included in the SDR from next October, with a weighting in the basket of 10.92%, most of which comes at the expense of the Euro's ...