Bond Market Holidays Headlines

FOREX-Euro and kiwi slip on weak data; ECB eyed

* Spike in NZ jobless rate knocks wind out of the kiwi dlr * ECB, Spanish bond sale in focus * Japanese markets on holidays, back Monday (Updates levels, adds comments) SINGAPORE/SYDNEY, May 3 (Reuters) ...

FOREX-Euro and kiwi retreat on weak data; ECB eyed

* Spike in NZ jobless rate knocks wind out of the kiwi dlr * ECB, Spanish bond sale in focus * Japanese markets on holidays, back Monday (Updates prices, adds comments) SINGAPORE/SYDNEY, May 3 (Reuters) ...

FOREX-Euro, kiwi unsettled by weak data; ECB eyed

* Spike in NZ jobless rate knocks wind out of the kiwi dlr * ECB, Spanish bond sale in focus * Japanese markets on holidays, back Monday SYDNEY, May 3 (Reuters) - The euro wallowed near two-weeklows against ...

S.Africa rand falls vs dollar, dealers cover shorts

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The rand lost more than 1 percent on Friday as investors covered short dollar positions on rising risk aversion and South African government bonds fell as an undersubscribed inflation-linked bond sale weighed on the market. The rand hit the week's low in late trade, with dealers saying traders who had been short were buying back the dollar after a disappointing U.S. jobs ...

Analysis: Turning point emerges for Chinese central bank's market operations

China's central bank is changing the way it conducts monetary policy as the world's second-largest economy looks inward for growth, and it is being felt first by people such as Madam Ju, a senior money ...