The week ends with risk appetite as the EU Summit ended on a positive note as European politicians came to terms to help reduce Italy’s borrowing costs and ease the rules on using bailout funds to support Spanish banks..

Overnight Developments:

• A breakthrough at the EU Summit helps spark a strong risk rally, with EUR and commodity currencies benefiting.
• Yields in Italy and Spain sliding sharply back.

European Summit:

• One of the main topics – How to get Italy’s 10-year yield to 4% or lower?
• Second main topic – How to avoid Spanish bank recapitalization from impacting Spanish overall debt burden.
• Eurozone leaders agree to restructure Spanish bank bailout deal.
• Bailout funds will be injected directly into banks, will not add to Spain’s debt levels.
• Bailout loans to Spain will no longer be granted seniority status.
• No extra conditions for bailout funds to purchase bonds (just have to maintain their EU debt and debt commitments).
• Italy set to take advantage of this to lower its borrowing costs.
• The change to Spain’s bailout deal will come only after the eurozone sets up a single banking supervisor to be run by the ECB – no longer 17 different bank supervisors..
• Europe moves towards a banking union.
• The EU Summit Eurozone leaders trying to break the link between weak banks and governments.

Global Macro Data:

• Global demand/growth shows some improvement on Euro-zone crisis is badly needed as it seeps into real economy.
• Japan’s industrial production down 3.1% in June, though unemployment rate improved to 4.4% and household spending was up (4.0% y/y).
• German retail sales fall 0.3% in May after sliding 0.2% in April (forecasts were a 0.1% increase).
• Eurozone private loans down 0.1% (forecast was for a 0.3% increase), though M3 rises 2.9% y/y.
• UK index of services flat vs forecast of 0.3% gain.
• Last week we had other poor macro data – China’s manufacturing PMI, Germany’s Manufacturing PMI, ZEW Economic Sentiment and IFO, US Philly Fed index point to weakness in the world’s industrial powers.
• Next week – Tankan Manufacturing from Japan, Manufacturing and Services PMI’s from around the globe (US, UK, Europe, China, India, etc), employment data from the US and Canada.
• Plus RBA, ECB, and BOE rate decision.
• Will ECB lower rates, will BOE restart bond purchases?

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