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IntroductionBy Jamie McGeever(Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeeverIf world ma ...

By Jamie McGeever

(Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever

Fed up? Stocks up! By Reuters

If world markets on Download the FXTM forex appMonday take their cue from Friday's melt up on Wall Street it will round off what has, in many ways, been a truly remarkable month.

Investors face another (likely) bumper U.S. rate hike from the Fed later this week, and profit-taking and re-positioning as the new month begins could also burst the revival bubble. But it's worth noting the resilience markets showed in October.

The implied Fed terminal rate rose around 50 bps to 5% (also Goldman's new forecast), bond yields rose, global inflation remained sticky, 2023 recession risks increased, and the Q3 U.S. earnings season has been patchy at best, or a disaster at worst. Looking at you Big Tech.

Yet world stocks are poised for their best month in almost two years, Wall Street volatility (the ) fell, and according to Ryan Detrick at Carson Group, the Dow is about to seal its best month since January 1976.

( vs tech wreck: https://image.fx9003.xyz/static/ts/img/202210/1153.jpg)

Granted, this followed a particularly dire September, so some sort of bounce was perhaps on the cards. And not all equity markets are smiling - MSCI's Asia ex-Japan index is almost certain to close in the red for an unprecedented 10th month in a row.

The divergence between U.S. and Asian markets is also reflected in the historic levels of dollar/Asia exchange rates, the widening gap between the U.S. and Chinese economic outlooks, and general investor confidence in the Fed versus Asian central banks' policy path.

The Bank of Japan may come under pressure to intervene in the FX support the yen again, with the currency resuming its slide after the BOJ stuck to its ultra-loose policy guns on Friday.

The PBOC is also struggling to keep its exchange rate depreciation in check. Monday will confirm the yuan's eighth monthly decline in a row, a record.

Three key developments that could provide more direction to markets on Monday:

China PMIs (October)

Japan retail sales (September)

South Korea retail sales (September)

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