Sovereign Debt Yields Rise Further
April 15, 2019
Ten-year sovereign debt yields rose overnight in Europe and Japan.
Share prices climbed 1.4% in Japan, 0.9% in New Zealand, 0.7% in Taiwan, 0.5% in Indonesia, and 0.4% in India but fell 0.3% in China and Hong Kong. European equity markets are little changed.
West Texas Intermediate oil dropped 1.1%, and Comex gold is trading 0.3% lower.
The dollar is unchanged against the yen, yuan, kiwi, and Swiss franc but down 0.3% relative to sterling, 0.2% versus the euro and loonie and 0.1% against the Australian dollar.
Like many Mondays, released data has been on the light side today.
In the U.S., the Empire State manufacturing index rebounded to a 4-month high in April of 10.1 from 3.7 in March but remained quite a bit lower than last November’s reading of 21.4.
New Zealand’s services purchasing managers index dropped 0.7 points to a 9-month low of 52.9 in March and was 3.3 points below January’s 8-month high.
The Swiss combined producer price/import price index increased 0.3% on month in March, trimming its 12-month rate of decline by a half percentage point to 0.2%. Domestic producer prices were 0.5% lower than in March 2018, while import prices were 0.3% higher than then.
Danish PPI inflation decelerated a whole percentage point in March to a 1-year low of 2.0%.
Polish CPI inflation accelerated a half percentage point to a 6-month high of 1.7% in March.
Finnish CPI inflation settled back to 1.1% in March from a 3-month high of 1.3% in February.
Dutch retail sales in February were 4.3% greater than a year earlier, their biggest on-year advance in 3 months.
The British Rightmove house price index recorded a year-on-year decline for the second month in a row in April. The dip was 0.1% compared to a 12-month drop of 0.8% in March.
Turkish unemployment averaged 14.7% in December-February, almost four percentage points higher than a year earlier.
Indian wholesale price inflation rose a quarter percentage point to to a 3-month high of 3.18% in March. Such was the first acceleration since October. Fuel and food inflation rose, while wholesale price inflation among manufactured goods decelerated marginally.
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