{"id":546,"date":"2023-04-11T12:49:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcfx.sofyma.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2023-04-26T17:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T16:21:18","slug":"morning-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/morning-update-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Telegraph is leading with an article that Downing Street is planning an early election in the Autumn of 2024 as the party tries to reduce its gap in the polls and boost its chances of another term. Presently, average opinion polls suggest that the Conservative Party is 18 percentage points behind Labour. While this gulf between the Conservatives and Labour demonstrates the scale of the challenge facing Rishi Sunak, since the 42-year-old took on his prime ministerial post, he has reduced this gap by some six percentage points.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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His accession last October followed a year which saw the departure of two PMs, along with 145 other government resignations and sackings and the new PM has thus tried to restore credibility amongst the electorate. Hence, while according to the Fixed Term Parliament Act the general election is to be held no later than 25th January 2025, many in No.10 feel that an early election will give the party the best odds for victory.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Today in Focus<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n
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This morning will see Eurozone retail released for March, where the general market consensus is forecasting a contractionary print of 3.5%. This would mark a further 1% fall from February\u2019s data and is indicative of the squeeze on households manifesting itself on cuts in spending \u2013 particularly discretionary. This comes ahead of the respective talks of the Fed’s Goolsbee (a voting member of the FOMC) and Harker where markets will paying close attention to any insight on their monetary policy views. Both speeches of course comes ahead of US CPI released tomorrow, where the market consensus is estimating a headline print of 5.6% on an annualised basis – unchanged from last month \u2013 and a core print of 0.4% on a month-on-month basis. Following strong non-farms data, money markets currently imply that there is around a 70% chance that the Federal Reserve will hike on 3rd May, though such markets indicate that the central bank are approaching their terminal rate.<\/p>\n

Today will also see the Swiss parliament hold sessions on the Credit Suisse-UBS deal and regulatory changes as markets weigh on a tumultuous few months in the global banking sector.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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This morning saw Chinese inflation come in softer-than-expected hitting 0.7% over March, against forecasts of 1%. March\u2019s print also came in 0.3 percentage points lower than last month\u2019s print and was the lowest figure since September 2021. This morning\u2019s print follows the the PBoC\u2019s voting to keep their base interest rate unchanged at 3.65% a level which has stood since August 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Oil in Focus<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n
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Last\u2019s week\u2019s price action remained heavily influenced on OPEC+\u2019s announcement that they would look to reduce by some 1.16 million barrels per day from May until the end of 2023. Hence, despite non farms coming in higher-than-expected and thus raising the odds that the Federal Reserve may opt for a 25bpt rate hike, oil prices remain buoyed on the prospect of supply side pressures. As such WTI crude futures are now trading at over $80 per barrel up some 7.1% on the month and 2\/3rds of a percent on the day.<\/p>\n

More generally markets are also digested OPEC\u2019s Secretary-General Haitham Al-Ghais warning over the potential for suppressed demand from Europe and the US. Though according to the International Energy Agency, global oil demand could rise by 2m bpd to reach a record level of just shy of 101.7m bpd. According to the IEA, half of the expected rise in demand will be driven by China\u2019s reopening. Over the course of last year, Chinese oil demand dropped on average by 390,000 bpd, which also represented the first annual decline since 1990.<\/p>\n

Away from the demand side, the IEA also highlighted potential oil supply side constraint. The group stated that:\u00a0\u201cWorld oil supply growth in 2023 is set to slow to 1 mb\/d following last year\u2019s OPEC+ led growth of 4.7 mb\/d. An overall non-OPEC+ rise of 1.9 mb\/d will be tempered by an OPEC+ drop of 870 kb\/d due to expected declines in Russia. The US ranks as the world\u2019s leading source of supply growth and, along with Canada, Brazil and Guyana, hits an annual production record for a second straight year.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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