24th May 2019 - The US-China trade war could lower the interest rate outlook in US

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The US equities indexes future rates could rebound during the Asian session paring some of their scored losses yesterday and helping the Asian equities indexes to recover.

After The Trade dispute between US and China could easily take its toll this week over the market sentiment sending UST yields lower driving the Gold up again.

With lower UST yields, The Greenback came under pressure across the broad expect the Japanese yen which could get benefits from the risk aversion sentiment and put more pressure on Nikkei 225.



As The trade dispute escalating can revive the Fed's worries about the economy and drive it to lose its patience and cut rates as required by Trump's administration.

After FOMC had seen in the beginning of this month improvement and lower downside risks likely to drive the economic expansion down following higher than expected growth in the first quarter of this year, while the current inflation slowdown is likely to be transitory.


Now and after nearly 3 weeks, Most of the market participants realized that the Trade War between the 2 biggest economies can be prolonged for years with no sign of nearby continuation of the talks which are about to be trimmed.

The focus turned on the negative impact of this war which is considered now the biggest threat to the global economy, after President Trump escalated The war by blacklisting Huawei expecting it to be part of the trade pact.

Targeting Huawei several times seemed to be for isolating China and capping it from becoming the world superpower not just for cutting its trade benefits with US.


Previously during the trade talk, Trump decided to raise the levy on Chinese goods worth $200b from 10% to 25% and China retaliate by imposing tariffs from 5% to 25% to a total of $60B worth of US goods studying stop purchasing US agricultural products and reducing Boeing orders.

Meanwhile, the main Chinese weapon in this war is buying time and Trump's administration knows that very well and this is making him nervous, as this dispute can be protracted to a democratic administration to end it with no or minimal benefits.


This Trade War intensifying can effect negative on the potential growth of the 2 biggest economies which can look for side ways to pass their trades and it can also dampen the demand for commodities and Energy and the economies depending on them Such as Canada, Australia which are considered the nearest commodities markets to these 2 big economies.


USDCAD rose yesterday for 1.35 with WTI slide to $57.34 per barrel, while AUDUSD is trading now just below 0.69 waiting for interest rate cutting, if the labor market in Australia did not improve, as The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia Philip Lowe figured out this week.

GBPUSD could rebound this morning for trading near 1.2680, after coming under pressure this week by rumors about Theresa May's resignation as PM leading U.K. Conservative Party.

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Global Market Strategist of FX-Recommends

Walid Salah El Din