Tuesday 15th August 2017

Nobody said the markets weren’t fickle. All it takes is the distraction of domestic unrest in the US to divert attention from the Korean peninsula, and markets rebound. As Phil Dobbie discusses with NAB’s Tapas Strickland, the dollar gained ground overnight, bond yields rose, safe haven currencies lost ground, gold retreated – it’s almost as though those harsh words between the two leaders never happened. They also discuss data from China and Japan, look behind a sharp fall in oil prices and look ahead to European data released tonight.