#Another sleepless night meme skin

'We are planning for the worst,' said Laurence Crosby, head of trading at London Capital Group. While London Capital will deploy extra people on the night, Citigroup Inc.'s bond trading desk is planning an early shift, said Zoeb Sachee, head of European government bond trading at the bank. A key concern for traders is liquidity in the early hours, whether enough banks are buying and selling as currency markets open in Asia after the weekend break.īrokers including London Capital Group and Saxo Bank's equities department will ask clients for larger deposits before placing a trade. That market will open the next morning, as will the stock exchange.

The euro, which will trade throughout the night, dropped 3pc against the dollar this month while Italian government bonds lost 2.5pc. transferred epithets are cruel bars, sleepless night, and suicidal. 'The difference this time is that it might be less about the result and more about how the vote is won or lost. in which the first computer sends a request for some data and the second. 'You have to ask how much the market will react to something they are expecting,' said Andy Soper at Nomura in London. Renzi, 41, has staked his political future by suggesting he would resign if he were to lose, and the first projections of the result are due just before midnight Rome time. Volatility in the euro against the dollar approached levels seen just after Trump's win as markets adjusted to the possibility that a defeat for Renzi might trigger early elections and gains for Five Star Movement, a populist group that wants a referendum on Italy's membership of the euro. All major polls before a two-week blackout showed Renzi losing by a narrow margin and the question would be what happens next. RIP my chances of sleep after seeing that. This time, it will be more about impact than shock. There's one funny piece of news and another not-so-funny piece of news.

'It's less about reading the polls and more about reading the markets, liquidity and pain thresholds in particular,' he said. Previous nights in the office taught Neil Staines, head of trading at money manager ECU Group Plc in London, what to watch.

#Another sleepless night meme skin

This time it's in Italy, where a vote on curtailing the power of the Senate has turned into a judgment on Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's leadership and the latest potential banana skin for investors. The routine is all too familiar for bond and currency traders.Īfter the shock of Britain's Brexit referendum and Donald Trump's US presidential election victory, trading desks are readying for another sleepless night on Sunday as they await the outcome of a ballot that again has the potential to disturb the political order. There's an acrimonious campaign, a vote and then a cliff-hanger result.