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The most extreme speculative positioning, judging from the futures market is the long yen position. The bulls added another 3.4k contracts, lifting the gross long position to 82.8k contracts. The record was set in 2008 at 94.7k contracts. The gross short position was trimmed by 4...
The US dollar rose against all the major and most emerging market currencies last week. After selling off following the ECB and FOMC meetings, the dollar found better traction. It was helped by widening interest rate differentials...
The campaign for Britain to leave the EU has been backed by 250 business leaders including the former chief executive of HSBC, the Vote Leave group said on Saturday, hoping to counter the view that UK businesses back staying in the bloc...
First, a few words about the forecast for the previous week: ■ if we talk about the forecast for EUR/USD, those 40% of the experts, who called for the pair falling, were right...
Early in Thursday’s trade, USDCAD closed above the two-month trend line that extends off the January high. At the time, it was just an intraday break on the 4-hour chart. However, the pair later managed a session close above the key handle...
Risk assets such as stocks, corporate bonds and bank loans have been trading in a wide and volatile range, taking investors on a roller-coaster ride up and down, including most recently a rally of about 10 percent in U.S. equity markets...
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The dollar held steady against the other major currencies in subdued trade on Monday, off Friday’s five-month trough as the greenback continued to recover from the Federal ...read more...
The dollar edged moderately higher against the other major currencies in quiet trade on Monday, as the greenback continued to recover from the Federal Reserve’s most recent ...read more...
French private sector activity grew at the fastest pace in five months in March, easing concerns over the economic outlook of the euro zone’s second largest economy, preliminary ...read more...
German business confidence turned around and rose higher in March, rebounding from a 14-month low in February, industry data showed on Tuesday. In a report, the German research ...read more...
As we entered the New Year, it became obvious that the lack of further Central Bank support in December threatened the fragile recoveries that have been seen around the globe in the post-Financial Collapse environment............read more...
Oil has stayed resilient during the past few weeks, despite occasional risk-off sentiment. Crude prices rose to their highest in three months in early March, at $42.49/barrel for WTI and $42.54/barrel for Brent...
Gold embarked on an aggressive recovery in the first quarter of 2016, buoyed by a slump in Federal Reserve rate hike expectations...
The diverging paths for monetary policy fosters a long-term bullish outlook forUSD/JPY, but the Federal Reserve’s and the Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) wait-and-see approach may continue to drag on the exchange rate especially as Janet Yellen and Co. look to further delay their normalization cycle...
Coming into Q1’16, our main theme for EUR/USD was that, because market participants would be wholly fixated on seeing what the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve would do in their March meetings, neutrality would prevail........read more...
The US Dollar took a dangerous tumble through the first quarter, throwing into doubt the currency’s ambitions after more than four years of advance...
A rebound in risk appetite, falter in the Dollar and push to extreme dovish monetary policy defined the close of the past quarter. What does the second quarter hold for the benchmarks of the FX, capi...Continue Reading...
On the face of it, the latest government update on how the U.S. economy performed in the fourth quarter looked a bit more encouraging. Growth was revised to a 1...
