Stocks gain as investor optimism over China COVID dents dollar By Reuters - Investing.com

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By Amanda Cooper

LONDON (Reuters) -Global stocks roseate connected Monday, contempt Beijing's denial that it would see easing its zero COVID-19 policy, which diverted capitalist flows distant from the dollar up of perchance pivotal user ostentation information this week.

Risk assets bounced connected Friday owed to speculation China was preparing to unbend its pandemic restrictions, but implicit the play wellness officials reiterated their committedness to the "dynamic-clearing" attack to COVID cases arsenic soon arsenic they emerge.

"We tin question whether the China communicative has immoderate veracity, but the marketplace is rather blessed to springiness it credence for the moment, contempt the large denials," CIBC Capital Markets caput of G10 currency strategy Jeremy Stretch said.

The dollar came nether unit for a 2nd day, arsenic traders latched connected to the thought that China could temper immoderate of its restrictions, aft the authorities connected Monday indicated it volition marque it easier for radical to participate and exit the capital.

The dollar dropped against different large currencies, pushing the lb up by 0.8% to $1.1457 and boosting the euro by 0.2% to near-parity astatine $0.9980.

and Nasdaq futures edged higher, rising by 0.2% and 0.3%, respectively.

The biggest macroeconomic hazard lawsuit this week volition beryllium the U.S. October user terms scale (CPI), which could power capitalist expectations for the apt people of Federal Reserve monetary policy.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell quashed speculation past week that the cardinal slope could dilatory the gait of its complaint rises, saying involvement rates would apt enactment higher, for longer.

On Friday, the October employment study showed overmuch faster occupation maturation than expected, but slower wage maturation and a emergence successful the unemployment rate, suggesting immoderate of the tightness successful the labour marketplace whitethorn beryllium easing.

MEDIAN FORECASTS

For Thursday, median forecasts are for yearly ostentation to dilatory to 8.0% and for the halfway to dip a tick to 6.5%.

"If we tin spot a moderation successful halfway CPI, which I deliberation mightiness beryllium a small spot to connote that, but I deliberation if we bash spot that, it volition promote this correction to tally a small spot further," CIBC's Stretch said.

Speculation that China, the world's largest commodity consumer, mightiness unfastened its system lifted by 7% connected Friday successful its biggest one-day rally since 2009, portion lipid roseate by much than 4%.[MET/L] [O/R]

Four Federal Reserve policymakers connected Friday indicated they would see a smaller involvement complaint hike astatine their adjacent argumentation meeting, sounding little hawkish than Chair Jerome Powell.

There are astatine slightest 7 Fed officials scheduled to talk this week, which volition assistance refine the complaint outlook with markets present narrowly leaning toward a half-point complaint hike adjacent period to 4.25-4.5%.

"I don’t deliberation the marketplace volition bash overmuch up of U.S. ostentation data," said Massimiliano Maxia, elder fixed income specializer astatine Allianz (ETR:) Global Investors.

"Markets expect a (Fed) complaint hike of 50 bps successful December and 25 bps aboriginal adjacent year, but they are acceptable to alteration their presumption beauteous rapidly if user terms numbers astonishment connected the upside," helium added.

Two-year Treasury yields, astir delicate to ostentation and involvement complaint expectations, were past up 6 ground points connected the time astatine 4.711%, disconnected Friday's 2007 peak.

Also of enactment volition beryllium midterm U.S. elections connected Tuesday wherever Republicans could triumph power of 1 oregon some chambers and pb to deadlock connected fiscal policy.

Meanwhile, lipid eased, surrendering immoderate of past week's gains. fell 0.7% to $97.96 a barrel, arsenic did , to $91.91 a barrel.