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While stocks are having a chaotic start to the year, investors are pulling money from securities that profit from higher volatility at the same time as short sellers are piling into bets that tranquility will return. Traders yanked $850 million from

Foreign Central Banks Furiously Dump US Treasuries: Record $47 Billion Sold In First Two Weeks Of 2016 It's not just stocks have a terrible start to the year, in fact the worst start in history: so is the amount of US Treasuries held in custody at

CAD has been battered by news flow and the stream of negative developments is likely to extend in the week ahead. The main event risk is the BoC meeting, from which Citi expects a cut. Investors have rapidly moved to price in greater risk, with

EUR/USD to rise on less dovish ECB Currency investors should consider buying EUR/USD this week, advises Morgan Stanley in its weekly FX pick to clients. The following is MS' rationale behind this call along with the details of the entry, stop, and

The euro has held a steady bid since US traders arrived and it's extended 1.0922 from a low of 1.0860 early in US trading. The market knows the ECB is dovish but there is easing in the pipeline and Draghi has remained cautious about deploying more

The European Central Bank is likely to keep interest rates on hold when its policymakers meet on Thursday, even as a market crash, tumbling bank stocks and ebbing inflation set the stage for action later in the year. The meeting of the Governing

The biggest story in the Thursday's foreign-exchange market was ECB President Mario Draghi’s surprisingly dovish comments on monetary policy. Many economists believed he would avoid making specific comments about more policy action but as we pointed

In the wake of the European Central Bank (ECB) meeting a client note with new predictions for the euro Now looking for EUR/USD to fall: To $1.04 in 3 months 1 in 6 months And 0.95 cents in 12 months Commenting on the meeting: "After today's ECB, we

In Asian hours risks sentiment improved further, with US stock futures trading higher at the time of writing. This is mainly due to central bank President Draghi making a bigger case of additional policy measures being considered as part of the March

No doubt the PBOC has heavily debated cutting rates since the start of the year. So far they have stayed on the sidelines. I suspect that's because they don't want to look like they're responding to markets or panicking. That's why cutting now, when

What a week it has been in the foreign-exchange market! The turnaround in oil, recovery in currencies and rebound in global equities has many investors hoping that 3 weeks into the New Year, we've finally seen a bottom. 2016 started with major losses

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Currency investors should consider buying GBP/CAD this week, advises CitiFX in its weekly FX pick to clients. "ST positioning data suggests the market is short GBP. In the past few weeks the first hike, as priced by short rates, has been pushed out

Being a wealthy client at a big Wall Street bank comes with its advantages. For example, your money manager might be able to get you shares of red-hot, nonpublic companies like Uber. As far as general investment advice is concerned, there's a

In a strategy note today, Deutsche Bank advises clients to sell EUR/USD through 2016 arguing that this should be another great year for the greenback which is poised to be a high-yielder by the end of the year. The following are the main points in

The pound suffers from poor data and other troubles while the yen enjoys safe haven flows. This and more are behind the short call by Credit Suissse: Here is their view, courtesy of eFXnews: Currency investors should consider selling GBP/JPY this

Risk sentiment improved further in Asian hours, mainly in reaction to better than expected trade data out of China. In particular better than expected import growth is taken as an indication of more resilient domestic conditions. Even if the latest

The pros at Deutsche Bank just released a handy map of monetary policy around the world in their "House View" for 2016. The market anticipates two interest-rate hikes from the Federal Reserve this year, fewer than the Fed's telegraphed plans for

EUR/USD is still contained by the Dec/Jan bull flag , notes Nomura. "This pullback towards 1.08 has met the channel midpoint and a 61.8% Fib retrace. We are treating this decline as an A-B-C correction so we favor a rally and eventual breakout

Euro pops because headlines say the ECB may not ease again Why is this news? Draghi has already said that they felt that the minimal action they took in December was because they felt there was life in the Eurozone economy and there was no need to do