Tag Archive: Currency Movement

Equities Wish it were Turn Around Tuesday as Rout Continues and No Relief for the Yen

2025-11-18

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2025-11-18

Overview: A sell-off in equities is continuing while the foreign exchange market is quiet with the greenback confined mostly to narrow ranges. It is firmer against most currencies, though the dollar bloc is the most resilient today. The dollar reached a new nine-month high against the yen. Despite some escalating rhetoric from the MOF, the …

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Downgraded Chances of Fed Cut Next Month Help Underpin the Greenback

2025-11-17

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2025-11-17

Overview: The US dollar is slightly firmer against most of the G10 currencies, with the Antipodeans, leading the move with around 0.25% losses. Rising tensions between Japan and China, coupled with shift in expectations away from a Fed cut and a BOJ hike next month keeps the dollar within strike distance of JPY155, where $1.4 …

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Sterling and Gilts Weighed Down by UK Government Budget Shift

2025-11-14

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2025-11-14

Overview: The US dollar is trading with a firmer bias today but is mostly within yesterday's range. There are four developments to note. First, China's October data mostly disappointed, but the PBOC set the dollar's reference rate at a new low since October 2024. Second, the UK government reportedly has shifted strategies to focus on …

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US Dollar Remains Soft Despite Disappointing UK Growth and Eurozone Industrial Output

2025-11-13

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2025-11-13

Overview: The US dollar is trading heavier against most of the world's currencies today. Better than expected Australian employment data, which boosts speculation that the central bank's easing cycle is over, helps explain the Australian dollar's gain to its best level of the month. However, sterling is firm and extended yesterday's gains despite news that …

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Yen Slumps but Material Intervention Still Seems Unlikely, Sterling Holds $1.31, and PBOC Fix USD at New Low

2025-11-12

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2025-11-12

Overview: The US dollar is mostly consolidating in narrow ranges against the major currencies. The notable exception is the Japanese yen, which has slumped to a new nine-month low as the greenback approached JPY155. Despite repeated warnings by Japan's finance minister, the market seems undaunted. Actual material intervention seems unlikely, especially outside of Tokyo markets. …

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Yen and Sterling Weakness Featured

2025-11-11

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2025-11-11

Overview: The US dollar is mixed.  Sterling is the weakest of the G10 currencies after unexpectedly poor employment reported boosted chances of rate cut next month.  The dollar also made marginal new high against the Japanese yen since February, but so far has remained below JPY154.50.  The dollar-bloc currencies are softer while the Scandis are …

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Deal to Re-Open the US Government Helps Boost Risk Appetites

2025-11-10

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2025-11-10

Overview: The prospect that the longest US government shutdown in history may end in the next few days has bolstered risk appetites, driven equities broadly higher and left the dollar non-plussed. The greenback is mixed against the G10 currencies. The Japanese yen, which appears have been dragged lower by the jump in US rates. The …

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Equities Slide, the Greenback is Bid, while the Yen Recovers with more Verbal Intervention

2025-11-04

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2025-11-04

Business travel will interrupt the commentary for the remainder of the week.  The next update will be the weekly commentary on November 8.  Good luck to us all.   Overview: Tumbling equities and softer yields mark a risk-off session. The US dollar, though, is mostly higher. Among the G10 currencies, it took another round of verbal …

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Greenback is Firm: Government Still Closed

2025-11-03

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2025-11-03

Overview: The US dollar is beginning the new month on a firm note. It has edged higher against most currencies. Among the G10, the Australian dollar and Norwegian krone are leading the pack with negligible gains. Among emerging market currencies, the Mexican peso's gain of around 0.15% puts its atop the complex. The news stream …

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Bullish Dollar Consolidation

2025-10-31

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2025-10-31

Overview: After extending this week's rally yesterday, the US dollar is consolidating yesterday's gains in what appears to be favorable price action. The pullback from greenback's best level has been shallow. The US struck several trade deals this week, and secured a trade truce with China, even if many are skeptical of its longevity, and …

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US-China Agree to Unwind Recent Actions, while Greenback Consolidates Post Fed Move, and Yen Slumps after BOJ Stands Pat

2025-10-30

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2025-10-30

Overview: The US agreed to not to block subsidiaries of Chinese companies that were sanctioned and not to enforce the port fee on Chinese ships that had ostensibly triggered the tightening of China's rare earth/magnet export restrictions. China agreed to suspend those for a year and dropped its levy on US made/operated ships port calls. …

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Japanese Verbal Intervention was More Effective than Bessent’s, and the Dollar is Bid Ahead of FOMC Outcome

2025-10-29

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2025-10-29

Overview:  The market is optimistic a deal will be struck between the US and China tomorrow. A reduction in the fentanyl tariff is expected, and a one-year delay in the broad export licensing requirement for rare earths and related technology has been tipped. Reports suggest China purchased two cargoes of US soy for the first …

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Japan’s Warning and Successful US-Japan Talks See Yen Snap Seven-Day Slide

2025-10-28

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2025-10-28

Overview: The dollar is mixed against the G10 currencies today. Fanned by Japanese official caution about exchange rate developments, and perhaps what seems like a successful between President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi, the dollar is snapping a seven-day advance against the yen. The dollar bloc and sterling are under-performing, while the roughly 1.75% …

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Risk-On as US-China Take Step Away from Brink, Market Shrugs off new US Levy on Canada, and Milei Does Better than Expected in Argentina

2025-10-27

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2025-10-27

Overview: A combination the US and China moving away from the trade brink, more US trade agreements (and frameworks) in Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia), and a strong showing by Milei's party in Argentina have boosted risk appetites in today's activity. The US S&P 500 and Nasdaq are poised to gap higher for …

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Trump Cancels Trade Talks with Canada even as US Seeks Broad Alliance to Check China’s Rare Earth Dominance

2025-10-24

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2025-10-24

Overview: The US dollar is trading higher against all the G10 currencies today, but it has not broken out of this week's ranges. The Dollar Index is rising for the fourth session this week and has recovered last week's 0.55% decline. The greenback is more mixed against emerging market currencies. While the JP Morgan Emerging …

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Tighter Sanctions on Russia Spurs Oil’s Surge and Lifts Yields

2025-10-23

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2025-10-23

Overview: The dollar is trading quietly in mostly narrow ranges against the most of the G10 currencies. The key development has been the escalation of pressure on Russia from a new round of sanctions by the US and EU. The US sanctioning of two of Russia's largest oil companies will disrupt Chinese and Indian buyers …

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Flat September CPI Boosts Speculation of a BOE Rate Cut While Weighing on Sterling

2025-10-22

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2025-10-22

Overview: The US dollar is mostly narrowly mixed among the G10 currencies. Sterling is the exception, and it is off about 0.35% after the softer than expected CPI spurred speculation of a rate cut. The 10-year Gilt yield is off seven basis points while most European bond yields are narrowly mixed, less than one basis …

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Yen Sold as Takaichi becomes Japan’s Prime Minister

2025-10-21

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2025-10-21

Overview: The US dollar is mostly firmer today as its pullback from last week's highs is retraced. Although the US 10-year yield is spending more time below the 4.0% floor, the yen is the weakest of the G10 currencies, off about 0.70%, as Takaichi became Japan's first woman prime minister and the many investors are …

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Eerie Calm in the Foreign Exchange Market

2025-10-20

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2025-10-20

Overview: The foreign exchange market is quiet, and the US dollar is slightly softer against most of the G10 currencies, though the Australian and Canadian dollar are struggling. Most emerging market currencies are also firmer. The market seems optimistic that the US-China trade tensions can de-escalate with Beijing re-assigning Li Chenggang who apparently annoyed the …

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Fear Grips the Capital Markets

2025-10-17

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2025-10-17

Overview: The pendulum between fear and greed is swinging toward the former today. The large write-downs at a couple of US regional banks follow high-profile collapses of Tricolor and First Brands. They play on fears of mounting late-cycle stress. US bank reserves have also fallen through a key threshold ($3 trillion) and some fear a …

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