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Given Euro-Zone developments over the past 48 hours with German 10-year Bund Yields closing at an incredible 0.08% and sharply heightened fears of an early Greek debt default, one could be forgiven for thinking that we would be coming in to find EUR/USD sharply lower...
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For much of the year to date, analysts and traders have been all too ready to dismiss weakness in incoming US economic data as cold-weather related. The weakness in US Industrial Production in March reported yesterday which came in at -0.6%, together with a sharp fall...
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Most of the focus was on the US Dollar over the past 24 hours following the release of the March Retail Sales Report. It was a slight miss, but much less so than the previous two reports. Headline Sales rose 0.9% and even stripping out autos and gas, sales rose 0.5%,...
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After opening the week trading in the 0.7660/0.7680 region, the AUD took a hit shortly after I posted yesterday morning after the release of much weaker than expected Chinese export figures for March. Annual export growth slumped from +48.9% y/y for Jan/Feb to -14.6%,...
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The S&P500, Dow and NASDAQ all closed 0.5% higher on Friday follower another barnstorming day for European stocks that saw Germany’s DAX rally by 1.75% to a new record closing high with the market now up over 26% year to date. The Eurostoxx closed 1.0% higher for...
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In a data light trading session, it was going to be left to market positioning and some underlying drivers that would likely drive FX and other key markets yesterday. The US reporting season is just kicking off with little news for markets to run on. The Dow S&P...
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