19 December 2022
Bigger Picture: 'BOJ must eye rate hike, shift to more flexible policy'
Azeem Sheriff, Market Analyst, CMC Markets APAC & Canada discusses if higher rates are here to stay and how the BOJ must make its monetary policy framework more flexible and stand ready to raise its long-term interest rate.

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2 December 2022
Market View: US jobs data, Elon Musk vs Tim Cook, Asian stock vs factory activity performance
Global markets seem to be taking comfort in Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s balanced tone with regard to further interest rate hikes.
Following that comment by Powell, we have more economic data including initial jobless claims and personal income figures out of the US last night.
Question is - to what extent do the data releases support the case for the central bank to tone down its pace of interest rate hikes?
Away from the US, November turned out to be the best month for Asian stocks in nearly 30 years, but yet private surveys showed factory output slumped for the month. Why the discrepancy?
On Market View, Prime Time’s finance presenter Chua Tian Tian spoke with Azeem Sheriff, Market Analyst, CMC Markets APAC & Canada for more.

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17 October 2022
Bigger Picture: China stays put on Covid-zero strategy
Azeem Sheriff, Markets Analyst, CMC Markets APAC & Canada discusses the key takeaways from China's National Congress as well as the political and economic turmoil pressuring the British pound.

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12 October 2022
Market View: US September CPI data and the Fed’s next move; JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon’s warning of a global recession
The US markets are on our agenda with the US CPI data for September set to be released on Thursday.
Based on earlier forecasts by Bloomberg, the headline consumer price index is expected to moderate slightly from 8.3 per cent on-year in August to 8.1 per cent on-year in September. Meanwhile, the more closely watched core inflation is set to rise from 6.3 per cent to 6.5 per cent on-year for September.
So would the decline in headline inflation alone offer any form of reassurance for the Fed to ease off the brakes in its upcoming policy meeting? On Market View, Prime Time’s finance presenter Chua Tian Tian spoke with Azeem Sheriff, Markets Analyst at CMC Markets APAC & Canada to find out what to expect on Thursday and the likely market reaction.

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4 October 2022

Bigger Picture: China property shares rally on policy support
Azeem Sheriff, Markets Analyst, CMC Markets APAC & Canada discusses oil prices jumping ahead of OPEC+ meeting to finalize output quotas and China banks provide at least US$85 billion to the property sector, is the worst in China property behind us?

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19 August 2022
Breakfast Brief: US housing market and Fed's lengthy inflation fight
In today's Breakfast Brief,  we discuss with Azeem Sheriff, Markets Analyst, CMC Markets APAC & Canada about US home sales which fell to a fresh 2-year low in July and US jobless claims which showed signs of softening in the labour market. How much will the latest data points move expectations for Fed policy and what are the key things investors need to watch out for.

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18 July 2022
The Breakfast Brief: Potential ECB rate hikes increase market fears
On today's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss the potential ECB rate hikes' effect on markets and the Euro. Tesla and Netflix are also under the microscope.

We speak to Azeem Sheriff, Markets Analyst, CMC Markets APAC & Canada more about this.

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