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Asian stocks tense for Fed tapering news

September 20, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 20, 2021

By Wayne Cole

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares eased and the dollar held firm on Monday ahead of a week graced with no less than a dozen central bank meetings, highlighted by the Federal Reserve which is likely to take another step toward tapering.

Holidays in Japan, China and South Korea made for a thin start, and politics adds extra uncertainty with elections in Canada and Germany bookending the week.

The fate of Chinese property giant Evergrande, and its $300 billion in liabilities, is also in the balance with a bond interest payment due on Thursday.

Concerns about the health of China’s economy and Beijing’s crackdown on tech firms continues to haunt the region with stocks in Hong Kong especially hard hit last week.

Early Monday, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dipped another 0.2%, after shedding 2.5% last week.

Japan’s Nikkei was shut and could do with consolidating after surging to 30-year highs on hopes a new Prime Minister will bring more stimulus and policy change.

Nasdaq futures eased 0.1% and S&P 500 futures unchanged, with Wall Street ending last week on a soft note after disappointing U.S. consumer confidence data.

The Fed is still expected to lay the groundwork for a tapering at its policy meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday, though the consensus is for an actual announcement to be delayed until the November or December meetings.

Yields on 10-year Treasuries touched a two-month top and the curve flattened ahead of the meeting.[US/]

“A flatter yield curve suggests some fears the Fed may overdo the eventual hiking cycle,” cautioned Tapas Strickland, a director of economics at NAB.

He noted only 2-3 FOMC members would need to shift their “dot plot” forecasts for a hike in 2022 to make it the median, given seven of 18 had already tipped a move next year.

“The Fed will also have dots for 2024 which will give an indication of the steepness of the potential hiking cycle.”

The market consensus is for two hikes in 2023 and four in 2024 with the longer-run fed funds rate seen at 2.125%.

Central banks in the EU, Japan, UK, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan , Brazil, South Africa, Turkey and Hungary all have meetings this week.

The Norges Bank is expected to be the first in the G10 to raise interest rates.

Higher U.S. yields has combined with general risk aversion to benefit the dollar which was up near a one-month high at 93.232 on a basket of currencies.

It was range bound on the yen at 109.96, while the euro was near its lowest in three weeks at $1.1728 in part on uncertainty ahead of Germany’s election this weekend.

Canada goes to the polls on Monday with the race too close to call.

The firmer dollar weighed on gold, which was pinned at $1,753 an ounceafter losing 1.9% last week.

Oil prices eased as energy companies in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico restarted production after back-to-back hurricanes in the region shut output. [O/R]

Brent fell 21 cents to $75.13 a barrel, while U.S. crude lost 24 cents to $71.73.

(Editing by Shri Navaratnam)

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David Barret
David Barret

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