"Buy the rumor - sell the fact" action for USD/TRY
During today's Turkish central bank meeting, the market anticipated a rate cut between 200-300 pips.
Asian stocks head north to eight-month maximum
On Tuesday, Asian stocks reached an eight-month maximum because optimism about Chinese measures to spur economic surge backed mainland markets, although fears about American earnings as well s a crucial Brexit summit this week pared profits.
Moreover, MSCI's index of Asia-Pacific stocks went up by 0.3%, hovering over its highest value since August 9 2018.
As for Chinese blue chips, they inched up by 0.15% because traders appreciated a plan uncovered by China's state planner on Monday just to relax residency curbs in numerous Chinese smaller cities and ramp up infrastructure spending.
However, outside of China, broader sentiment was mostly subdued due to the fact that traders’ focus was still on potential flashpoints, in particular, an important Brexit summit and a meeting on trade between China and the EU set for later on Tuesday.
EU stocks were braced for starting on a cautious note, with Britain’s FTSE futures standing still and Germany’s DAX futures losing 0.2%. As for E-Mini futures for the S&P 500, they decreased by 0.1%.
Furthermore, Japan's Nikkei jumped by 0.1%, while Australian stocks went down.
On Monday, Wall Street stocks demonstrated mixed performance, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average decreasing by 0.3% and the S&P 500 soaring by 0.1%.
Fears over decelerating American earnings have undermined American stocks in recent trading sessions, although a firm jobs report the previous week assisted to soothe frayed nerves.
Crude rallied to their highest value since November, powered by fighting in Libya in addition to everlasting supply cuts promised by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries as well as American sanctions against Venezuela and Iran.
Versus the Japanese yen, the evergreen buck dived by 0.15% hitting 111.35.
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The European trading session will be highlighted by the events for the British pound. Traders will pay special attention to the BOE meeting at 14:00 MT.
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