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The big news in equity markets has been the Dow Jones move up to 22000 for the first time ever boosted by Apple’s better than expected sales report. Amid a soft US Dollar environment the Euro briefly traded above 1.19 and UST yields are little changed. Meanwhile...
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Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan in a Bloomberg TV interview, speaking of a bubble in the bond market. “By any measure, real long term interest rates are much too low and therefore unsustainable. When they move higher they are likely to move reasonably fast. We are...
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The pattern of a weaker US Dollar has continued to play out since I posted 24 hours ago, as the Bloomberg Spot Dollar index closed down another 0.29% and the DXY down a larger 0.48%. The Euro has been the largest beneficiary, EUR/USD up and over 1.18, levels not seen...
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Whether President Trump and his advisers are fans of Neil Sedaka we probably will never know, but with the Q2 US GDP underwhelming on Friday and seemingly unable to break up into a higher range, Sedaka’s number one hit ‘’breaking up is hard to do’’ could be one of...
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Yesterday’s trading session was marked by a mild bounce in the US dollar into the end of the month, amid encouraging signs that this afternoon’s US GDP might yet be a mild overshoot, but against the ever-present continuing saga that is Washington and the Congress....
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The FOMC meeting was the big event from yesterday’s trading session and as widely expected the Fed left the Funds Rate unchanged and made a small tweak to its balance sheet unwind guidance noting that a start should occur “relatively soon” rather than “this year”, as...
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Judged by Equity, Bond, and Commodity markets, it has been well and truly a risk-on past 24 hours, but it has been more mixed as far as the currency market has been concerned. The AUD did test 0.7970 but was unable to hold that level and now sits back at 0.7940. In a...
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It has been a quiet start to the week with no major market moves since I posted 24 hours ago. US equities ended the day mixed with the Dow and S&P marginally lower while the NASDAQ closed marginally higher. A better than expected PMI print has helped the US...
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More of the same for currencies and bonds on Friday, the US dollar continuing to leak lower alongside US Treasury yields. Latest news out of Washington helping maintain the bearish dollar tone was the resignation of white House press secretary Sean Spicer, after...
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The pick-up in market price action has continued in FX markets, with the EURO the star performer, not only against what proved to further weakness in the USD, but on the crosses. The AUD meanwhile has been cutting though all of the price action and is continuing do to...
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The big news event since I posted 24 hours ago was President Trump imploring Republican Senators to forgo their Autumn recess (already pushed back two weeks) in order to repeal and replace Obamacare. There is a fat chance of that happening, and markets should already...
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How much a dollar cost? Is a song from American rapper Kendrick Lamar and apparently it is Barack Obama’s favourite song of 2015. Well, whichever way you measure it, a US Dollar costs less today than it did yesterday. The USD sell off that began early yesterday...
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We come in this morning and it has been something of a sideways/choppy past 24 hours of trading. The Dollar DXY index is little changed overall amid nothing too new on the data front, no Fed speak now with the media lock down ahead of next week’s FOMC, and US stocks...
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For any trader who was an Australian Dollar bear, Friday was about as depressing a day as it has been all year, AUD/USD coming within a pip of its 2016 high of 0.7835 and closing at its highest level since May 21st 2015. A lot of analysts are now going to have to...
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