Tag Archive: Stochastics

FX Weekly Review, January 23 – 28: Dollar Downwards and CHF Upwards Correction, for how long?

2017-01-29

US Dollar/Swiss Franc FX Spot Rate, January 21

The US dollar spent the first month of the new year correcting lower after a strong advance in the last several months of 2016. We argue that the correction actually began in mid-December following the Federal Reserve's rate hike.

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FX Weekly Review, January 16 – 21: Dollar Still Appears to Carving out a Bottom

2017-01-22

by George Dorgan

2017-01-22

The US dollar turned in a mixed performance over the past week. The technical indicators continue to support our expectation that after correcting since mid-December, following the Fed's hike, the dollar is basing.

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FX Weekly Review, January 09 – 14: Dollar Correction may be Over or Nearly So

2017-01-15

by Marc Chandler

2017-01-15

US Dollar/Swiss Franc FX Spot Rate, December 30

For the first week since the election of Trump, the Swiss Franc index had a clearly better performance than the dollar index. It improved by 1.5% in the last ten days.

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FX Weekly Review, January 02 – 07: Is the corrective phase of the dollar over?

2017-01-08

by Marc Chandler

2017-01-08

The lack of full participation and the resulting choppy conditions may have obscured the signal from the capital markets. That signal we think was one of correction since shortly after the Fed's rate hike in id-December. The question now, after the US employment data showed continued labor market strength and that earnings improvement remains intact, is whether the corrective phase is over.

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FX Weekly Review: June 27 – July 01: Swiss Franc Strength Reversed

2016-07-02

by George Dorgan

2016-07-02

Week after Brexit.: The Swiss franc (-0.3%) and the yen (-0.5%) were the worst performers, as so-called safe haven buying was reversed. But the Swiss Franc index is still stronger in the last month than the dollar index.

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