Asia Summary and Highlights 21 Aug

Asia Session

The broader risk mood is upbeat on Thursday. Both the U.S. three major and regional equity indexes are all in the green, except Nikkei and HSI that drifted into the red as session progress. With USD solid, major currencies are trading mostly lower. AUD/USD is down 0.21% to 0.6420, NZD/USD is also 0.13% lower at 0.5815 while USD/CAD rises 0.05%.

It is relatively quiet Thursday as market participants are keeping their focus for Jackson Hole. USD/JPY is trading 0.06% higher at 147.33 as we see little movement in both the U.S. Treasury and KGB yields. Else, EUR/USD is down 0.06% and GBP/USD is down 0.03%.