Financial Markets Update 3 December 2025
Markets pause after clickbait overload
News Overnight
EU CPI came in slightly higher than expected but nothing to worry about.
Better to worry about the FED’s Standing Repo Facility. We ignored the end of October higher short rates and increased Repo usage. However it does now appear to be becoming a consistent feature.
10-Year Japanese Government Bond (JGB) Auction Results - December 2, 2025
The auction for the 10-year JGB (Issue Number 380) was held on December 2, 2025, and showed strong demand, with a bid-to-cover ratio of approximately 3.59 (calculated from competitive bids of 7,039.7 billion yen against accepted bids of 1,960.2 billion yen). This contributed to a decline in the benchmark 10-year yield following the auction, dropping around 2-3 basis points to approximately 1.855%.
So the doomers will have been disappointed by the Japanese auction and also by equities bouncing back.
Breaking
ECB refuses to provide backstop for €140bn Ukraine loan [FT]
Demand for Japanese bonds reassures jittery markets [FT]
OBR report says Budget leak error also led to early Spring Statement access [FT]
China Tells Stats Providers to Halt Home Sales Data Publication [Bloomberg]
Canada agrees to join EU initiative to surge defense spending [Reuters]
Mark Carney says decades-long relationship between US and Canada has ended [MSN]
Did A German Court Just Shatter One Of The Biden Era’s Biggest Lies [Zerohedge]
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Bitcoin Update 3 December 2025
Back to 91k as 2 months of FUD starts to subside. At 126k it seemed very different. “Price will never go below 100k again” was said so many times. So what’s changed?
Dow Jones Update 3 December 2025
The Dow Jones cuts out all the noise and shows us what’s going on with US equites.
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Australia 30 Year Yield Update 3 December 2025
Aussie rates are pushing up. The high in the 30 year since COVID is 5.40% as above. Now is the fifth effort to push above 5.20%. The backdrop isn’t good. Inflation way higher than target is pushing the RBA to reassess their model. That really is flying blind.
Silver Update 3 December 2025
What looked like a down day yesterday turned into a positive day as price heads to the inevitable $62.00 at trend resistance.
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