Category Archive: 4) FX Trends
Dollar jumps on better US data, but gains are limited.
The dollar was goosed higher on the back of some decent data. The PMI, ISM and JOLTs data all beat expectations. Good news for the US economy. The Nasdaq moved to new record highs. The S&P and the Dow are less impressed. In the debt market, the yields remain in the red which is interesting. … Continue reading...
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FX Daily, June 5: Sterling Jumps Ahead, While US Equities Have Small Coattails
The British pound is benefiting from the stronger than expected service and composite PMI readings, which among other things are serving as a distraction from the government's seemingly tortured approach to Brexit and the sales of part of its stake in RBS for a GBP2 bln loss. Financials are a drag on the FTSE 100 today (~-0.5% while other major bourses are higher).
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FX Weekly Preview: Macro Matters Now, Just Not the Data
The main concerns of investors do not arise from the high-frequency data that are due in the coming days. Last week, the somewhat firmer than expected preliminary May CPI for the EMU failed to bolster the euro. The stronger than expected US jobs data, even if tipped by the President of the United States, and the pendulum of market sentiment swinging back in favor of two more Fed rate hikes this year did not trigger new dollar gains.
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Great Graphic: Euro Bulls Stir but Hardly Shaken
Euro has fallen 10.5 cents since mid-February. Net speculative longs in the futures market remain near record. Gross long euros have actually increased over the past month.
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FX Daily, June 01: Ironic Twists to End the Tumultuous Week
The week is ending quite a bit different than it began. The main banking concern is not in Italy but in German, where shares in Deutsche Bank shares fell to a record low yesterday, and S&P Global cut its credit rating one step to BBB+ (third-lowest investment grade).
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FX Daily, May 31: Don’t Confuse Calmer Markets with Resolution
The global capital markets that were in panic mode on Tuesday stabilized yesterday, and corrective forces have carried into today's activity. However, the underlying issues in Italy and Spain are hardly clarified in the past 48 hours. Moreover, the US push on trade is intensifying again.
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USDJPY stalls at overhead resistance but keeps most of the gains
With the US stock market rebounding and yields also higher, the USDJPY is higher on the day. However, overhead resistance is putting a lid on the rally so far. Can that lid be broken?
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FX Daily, May 30: Italian Reprieve, Euro Bounces, Trade Tensions Rise
After what could be described as a 15-sigma event yesterday in the Italian bond market, a reprieve today has seen the euro recover a cent from yesterday's lows. While the political situation in Italy is worrisome, many observers suspect that the new banking rules exacerbated the illiquidity that explains outsized moves.
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EURUSD corrects to 100 hour MA and stalls
The EURUSD corrected to the 100 hour MA and stalled. Is that the peak for the correction?
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What Happened Monday?
Italian politics dominated Monday's activity. Initially, the euro reacted positively in Asia to news that the Italian President had blocked the proposed finance minister. A technocrat government would be appointed to prepare for new elections.
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FX Weekly Preview: Political Crises in Europe Rivals Economic Data and Trade to Drive Capital Markets
The end of the Greek assistance program that allowed them to keep their primarily official creditors whole, and the broad expansion in the eurozone, was supposed to usher in a new period of convergence. Monetary union was once again feted as a success, and some observers were forecasting a substantial increase in the euro as a reserve asset.
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FX Daily, May 25: US Dollar Loses Momentum Ahead of the Weekend
The euro and sterling were sold through yesterday's lows in Asia, but rebounded in Europe, with the help of mildly constructive data in the form of the German IFO and details of UK Q1 GDP. The IFO climate measure matched the April reading and thereby snapped a five-month slide. The expectations component slipped, but the current assessment improved.
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FX Daily, May 24: Greenback Pushes Lower
The US dollar is pulling back after recording new highs for the year against the euro and sterling. The greenback is lower against nearly all the major currencies, but the Canadian dollar. It is also softer against most of the emerging market currencies. The chief exception is the Turkish lira. Yesterday's 300 bp rate hike could only stem the rot momentarily and the lira's 2.3% decline today, wipes out 2/3 of the annual rate increase.
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FX Daily, May 23: Dollar and Yen Surge, European Data Disappoints
The US dollar has extended its gains against most of the major currencies. Momentum, positioning, and divergence continue to drive it. The euro briefly traded a little below $1.17, an important technical area and has enjoyed a bounce in late morning turnover in Europe.
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Great Graphic: Euro-Swiss Shows Elevated Systemic Risk
The Swiss National Bank's decision in January 2015 to remove the cap on the Swiss franc (floor on the euro) that it has set at CHF1.20 is seared into the memory of a generation of foreign exchange participants. It is not exactly clear where the euro bottomed in the frenzied activity that followed the SNB's surprise move. Bloomberg records the euro's low near CHF0.8520.
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Weekly Technical Analysis: 21/05/2018 – USD/JPY, EUR/USD, GBP/JPY, USD/CAD, USD/CHF
The USDCHF pair reaches the key support 0.9955 now, and as we mentioned in our last report, breaking this level will confirm completing the double top pattern that appears on the chart, to rally towards our negative targets that begin at 0.9900 and extend to 0.9850. Therefore, we will continue to suggest the bearish trend supported by the negative pressure formed by the EMA50, unless the price managed to rally upwards to breach 1.0055 level and...
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Italy Defies Gravity and Risk to Fiscal Rectitude
Italian asset markets continue to fare better than many expected. The political uncertainty following the March election has been followed by confidence that the Five Star Movement and the (Northern) League will be able to put together a government in the coming days. If so, Italy would have taken half the time Germany did to cobble a government together after inconclusive elections.
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FX Weekly Preview: Dollar Power
There are several trends in the capital markets at a high-level. The euro and yen's decline has coincided with sustained rallies in European and Japanese equity benchmarks. Emerging market equities and currencies have been trending lower.
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Marc Chandler Says Fed Has Little Choice But to Continue to Hike Rates
May.21 — Marc Chandler, senior vice president at Brown Brothers Harriman, discusses currencies, Federal Reserve monetary policy and the outlook for markets. He speaks with Tom Keene and Francine Lacqua on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”
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