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Asian shares were heading for weekly losses on Friday as conflicting messages on the Sino US trade war only added to worries for the global economy, while talk of aggressive central bank stimulus drove bond yields to fresh lows.
US President Donald Trump said canada goose black friday discount on Thursday he believed China wanted to make a trade deal and that the dispute would be fairly short.
Beijing on Thursday vowed to counter the latest tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods but called on the United States to meet it halfway on a potential trade deal.
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Japan Nikkei fell 0.5 per cent, making a loss of 1.8 per cent on the week, while commodity exposed Australia was heading for a weekly drubbing of 2.7 per canada goose uk reviews cent.
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Such is the gloom that surprisingly strong US retail sales came and went with no impact on the bond rally.
Analysts have cautioned that the current bond market is a different beast than in the past and might not be sending a true signal on recession.
“The bond market may have got it wrong this time, but we would not dismiss the latest recession signals on grounds of distortions,” said Simon MacAdam, canada goose uk delivery global economist at Capital Economics.
“Rather, it is of some comfort for the world economy that unlike all previous US yield curve inversions, the Fed has already begun loosening monetary policy this time.”
Indeed, futures imply a one in three chance the Federal Reserve will chop rates by 50 basis points at its September meeting, and see them reaching just 1 per cent by the end of next year.
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“Notions that the package will include a revamped QE program also saw a sharp rally in Italian, Spanish https://www.buchholz-net.de and Portuguese debt,” said Tapas Strickland, a director of economics at National Australia Bank.
“If the ECB undertakes such substantive stimulus, it is unlikely to do so alone given the upward pressure it would put on the US dollar.”
Mexico overnight became the latest country to surprise with a cut in rates, the first in five years.
Canada yield curve inverted by the most in canada goose outlet uk sale nearly two decades, piling pressure on the Bank of Canada to act.
All the talk of ECB easing knocked the euro back to $1.1108 and away from a top of $1.1230 early in the week. That helped lift the dollar index up to 98.164 and off the week trough of 97.033.
The dollar could canada goose outlet houston make little headway on the safe haven yen, though, and faded to 106.08 yen.
The collapse in bond yields continued to make non interest paying gold look relatively more attractive and the metal held firm at $1,524.90, just off a six year peak.
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