Vol. MMXXVI
ECONOMICS · DAY · FOLIO CCXIX
29 · IV · MMXXVI

uesday — Twenty-Ninth of April — Anno Domini Two Thousand Twenty-Six — Folio CCXIX of Volume MMXXVI.

The Day’s Standing

Aggregate Equity  
Aggregate Debt  
Currency Basket (DXY · trade-weighted)  

DEBITS

— what was paid out, lost, defaulted, written down —

  1. §217 Brent crude futures, June settlement — closing draw on Asian session, Singapore & Tokyo desks closed two cents lower against intraday peak ☞i $ 72.18
  2. §218 U.S. continuing jobless claims, week ended 24 IV, written down against four-week moving average 1,872,400
  3. §219 Argentine peso, official rate, depreciation overnight against the dollar −0.84 %
  4. §220 Container index, Shanghai Composite Freight, paid out on 40′ reefer rates Yokohama–Long Beach ☞ii −42 pts
  5. §221 Iron-ore, Singapore 62% Fe, settlement of front-month, drawn down on weaker Chinese mill enquiries $ 104.40
  6. §222 German Bund 10y, yield decompression on weak ZEW — principal value lost to the holders −1¾ bp
  7. Carried forward to Folio CCXX $ 218,402,118,977

CREDITS

— what was paid in, earned, settled, written up —

  1. §223 Gold spot, London p.m. fix, paid in against the demand of the central bank reserves ☞iii $ 3,318.40
  2. §224 Brazilian real, settlement against the dollar — Banco Central intervention sold $ 420 m at the close +0.62 %
  3. §225 Wheat, Chicago Sept., earned in on Black-Sea harvest downgrade by the Rosario grain exchange ¢ 642½
  4. §226 U.S. 2y note, on-the-run, written up on hawkish minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee ☞iv +3¼ bp
  5. §227 Tokyo container throughput, April provisional, settled on stronger automotive exports +1.14 %
  6. §228 South-African rand, paid in against the dollar on platinum-group metals strength +0.41 %
  7. Carried forward to Folio CCXX $ 241,917,634,802

PARIS — 29 IV 26 — 04:42

The Banque de France held the discount rate unchanged at three-and-three-quarters in the small hours, against expectations of a quarter-point easing. The communique, in its third paragraph, referenced the “disorderly condition of the franc on the Antwerp wire” — the first such reference since the Tripartite Agreement.

— ENDS —

SHANGHAI — 29 IV 26 — 03:18

Container throughput at Yangshan finished the month four-and-one-tenth percentage points above March, on the strength of European-bound automotive shipments. The Shipping Exchange notes congestion at the southern berths is now in its fourteenth consecutive week.

— ENDS —

CHICAGO — 28 IV 26 — 23:55

September wheat closed limit-up at six-hundred-forty-two-and-a-half cents on the Rosario downgrade. The board confirmed the close at one minute before midnight; the pit was quiet, the floor traders gone, only the wires were left.

— ENDS —

Yokohama Bay at first light, looking west to Fuji-san.

FROM THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT · YOKOHAMA

YOKOHAMA · 29 IV 26 · 06:14 (LMT)

Sir, — The Tokyo session closed firm. The yen, on the noon fixing at the Bank, paid in three-tenths of a percent against the dollar; the Nikkei industrial close was higher by some forty-two points on the strength of the export complex, automotive in particular. The freight wire from Yangshan reports the southern berths as still congested, with no expectation of relief before the Boys’ Day holiday. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, —

H. Lindqvist, Yokohama branch