Fixed Income Weekly Pulse, 19 Oct 2015

 Highlights of the week:

·         Growing doubts in when the Fed would boost interest rates turns USD into a markedly less formidable currency

·         Germany’s influential ZEW survey of investor confidence darken for the seventh month running in October

·         Disappointing Chinese trade data continues to rattle global markets as markets focus on the bad

·         RM surrenders its gain in the later part of the week 

• Local govvies rally with buying interest in the front end in response to Ringgit Malaysia’s appreciation pressure in the earlier part of the week