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Safe haven currencies are dominating the market as the steep selloff in the US extended into Asian trading, with Nikkei down more than -5%. Poor US manufacturing data released overnight has intensified investor concerns about an impending recession, overshadowing the benefits of monetary policy easing from Fed. The market’s attention is now firmly on today’s […]

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