ECB releases its account of the September monetary policy meeting
There’s quite a bit of mention on the euro but it is mostly just noting that there is some impact from the latest appreciation on the inflation outlook in general. The minutes fall short of detailing any added concerns beyond what has been said recently.

Forex news from the European trading session – 8 October 2020
Headlines:
Markets:
– AUD leads, GBP lags on the day
– European equities higher; E-minis up 0.4%

Latest update from the Commission on Presidential Debates

The dollar trades little changed for the most part currently
EUR/USD inched a little higher to 1.1780 earlier on in the session before falling back to 1.1753 and testing its 100-hour moving average @ 1.1755. That level held and we’re seeing price stay little changed on the day within a 29 pips range.

Comments by SNB head, Thomas Jordan
– Unprecedented expansion in monetary base in recent years does not pose a particular threat to the stability of the Swiss franc’s value
Yeah, I don’t think anything will change in the next decade at least and as Jordan said, the market has very much grown accustomed to the distortion in

UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, sticking to his guns
The EU is reported yesterday to want to call his bluff but he’s still keeping his cards close to the chest for now, so we will have to wait and see how things go in the next week.

Forex news from the European trading session – 7 October 2020
Headlines:
Markets:
– AUD leads, JPY lags on the day
– European equities a little lower; E-minis up 0.5%
It was a largely quiet session with the early focus being on Trump walking back his hard talk on stimulus yesterday, urging Congress for some piecemeal action.That has helped to

Coveney continues to feed more pessimistic remarks on the day
– Fishing is a big obstacle
– A landing zone on fishing is hard to envisage
Cable has erased all of its earlier gains to sit around 1.2880 now, testing its 200-hour moving average after the push higher earlier got rejected by near-term resistance. It is a

ITV reports
The report says that as virus cases are increasing in the north west, north east, and Yorkshire/Humberside, ministers are ‚feeling their way towards imposing severe restrictions on socialising in those areas‘.

Latest data from the Mortgage Bankers Association for the week ending 2 October 2020
–  -4.8%
– Market index 804.7 vs 769.6 prior
– Purchase index 316.0 vs 320.9 prior
The long-term mortgage rate slips to its lowest on record in the survey’s history, and that is arguably spurring the increase in refinancing activity – which carried the jump