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Euro Recovery: Paradigm Shift Confirmed

Written on 7 Aug, 2010 at 11:02 in Forex news, US Dollar | viewed 16 views times and users have made 0 comments so far

In early July, when the Euro rally was (in hindsight) just getting under way, I reported on the apparent paradigm shift in forex markets, whereby risk-driven trades that benefited the Dollar were giving way to trades driven by fundamentals, which... (Continue reading)

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Fed Mulls Options for Next Week’s Meeting

Written on 5 Aug, 2010 at 11:00 in Forex news, US Dollar | viewed 2 views times and users have made 0 comments so far

Next week, the Open Market Committee (OMC) of the Federal Reserve Bank will hold its monthly meeting. Even without checking futures prices, it’s obvious that the probability of an interest rate hike is nil. [In fact, the odds of a... (Continue reading)

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Inverse Correlation between Dollar and Everything Else…Still

Written on 11 Nov, 2009 at 0:17 in Forex news, US Dollar | viewed 17 views times and users have made 0 comments so far

Almost two months ago, I wrote a series of posts (Dollar Down, Everything Else Up and Dollar Down, Gold Up) with self-explanatory titles. Last week, the Wall Street Journal finally got around to covering this story, and were able to... (Continue reading)

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Forex Implications of China-US Economic Codependency

Written on 8 Nov, 2009 at 8:34 in Forex news, US Dollar | viewed 374 views times and users have made 0 comments so far

The Economist recently published a special report on China and America (”Round and round it goes“). As the title suggests, the article described the increasing interdependency between the economies of the US and China. In a nutshell, China maintains an... (Continue reading)

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Central Banks Prop Up Dollar

Written on 2 Nov, 2009 at 11:11 in Forex news, US Dollar | viewed 8 views times and users have made 0 comments so far

By all accounts, the decline of the US Dollar has been measured, and without incident. This, despite the fact that most investors reckon the Dollar is doomed, both from a long-term and a short-term perspective. What, then, is preventing an... (Continue reading)

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Dollar at a (Technical) Crossroads

Written on 20 Oct, 2009 at 11:17 in Forex news, US Dollar | viewed 14 views times and users have made 0 comments so far

I deliberately concluded my last post (US Dollar: Same Old Story) on a somewhat ambiguous note; even though though the deck is stacked against the Dollar, its 14% decline in 2009 has left it perilously close to record lows, and... (Continue reading)

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US Dollar: Same Old Story

Written on 18 Oct, 2009 at 10:31 in Forex news, US Dollar | viewed 9 views times and users have made 0 comments so far

These days, it’s hard to offer a fresh perspective on the Dollar. The factors driving its short-term momentum – namely low interest rates and its perception as a financial safe haven – have been in place for nearly a year.... (Continue reading)

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