Danske Markets

In recent months, Denmark has received substantial attention due to the appreciation pressure on the Danish krone. This Fact Book on Denmark gives a brief overview of the main aspects of the Danish...

In Sweden, the week ahead is all about 'super Wednesday', when both Prospera's wage and inflation survey and February inflation are due to be published. As for inflation expectations, we refrain from...

Market movers today Focus is likely to remain on Greece at today's Eurogroup meeting. The Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has said he will present six specific reform proposals at the...

The February employment report showed another strong gain in the number ofjobs in the US. Overall, job growth was 295,000 and, taking into account the small 18,000 downward revision to January...

Market movers ahead US retail sales have been weak of late, but we expect to see a pickup in February despite the severe winter weather. Industrial production numbers are likely to confirm the...

As expected, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) just announced that it voted to maintain the Bank Rate and the stock of asset purchases at 0.50% and GBP375bn, respectively. There was no statement in...

Euro inflation surprised on the upside in February and consequently we revise our forecast for 2015 up and into positive territory.The upward revision is driven by higher energy and food price...

Market movers today Focus will be on the ECB meeting, although it is expected to be much less interesting than the latest meeting in January when the ECB announced its QE programme. Attention will...

Euro area retail sales increased for a fourth month in a row in January, when they were up 1.1% m/m. The figure for December was revised slightly higher to 0.4% m/m from 0.3% m/m in the first release....

Market movers today Euro-area retail sales are expected to have continued to increase in January after the German figure released yesterday was very strong. The increase should reflect that private...

Abundant supply on the back of excess production continues to weigh on grains and oilseed prices, although some disrupted weather has hit the market during the last six months.We expect prices to...

Danmarks Nationalbank (DN) made FX intervention purchases for DKK168.7bn in February. In the latter part of February, DN did not intervene in the FX market. Despite the surge in the Danish FX...

Following a bounce above the central rate, EUR/DKK dropped yesterday to 7.4530, indicating that the DKK appreciation pressure has not passed. In March, Danish companies pay dividends to investors,...

Our expectation for non-farm payrolls for February is 235,000, which is in line with consensus, as we expect some deceleration in the recent elevated trend in job growth. Our trend model nevertheless...

Market movers today Today's calendar is very light. In Germany retail sales for January will be released this morning. There were strong gains in German retail sales in both November and December,...

The strong momentum in credits continued last week with the iTraxx Crossover tightening by some 10bp. The strong momentum follows a stronger oil price, continued relative calm (before the storm?)...