Forex news for Asia trading Monday 5 October 2015

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Forex news for Asia trading Monday 5 October 2015

Monday

Weekend:

The USD weakened across the board in Asia today in nearly (not quite) uni-directional, grinding movement.

EUR and GBP gained around 50 or so points, while AUD and NZD were up around 40 and 30 or so points respectively. CHF didn't gain to the same extent as any of these.

News flow was limited ... there was plenty over the weekend and today in Asia but nothing to approach the impact of the NFP surprise on Friday.

Oil opened lower for the week and then traced out a gap-cover move back towards last week's closing levels. Gold was more or less flat.

Regional stocks had a good post-NFP day:

  • Nikkei +1.75%
  • HK +1.66%
  • ASX +1.84%
  • Shanghai ... China is closed for the Golden Week holidays and will reopen on October 8