David Powell
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This should help the greenback continue the rally experienced over the last few weeks and leave the market focusing on further dollar gains related to a potential move of the fed funds rate to 5.00 percent.
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We saw consolidation of the gains in the Canadian dollar from last Friday.
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My feeling is that while there may be a mention of (a stronger Canadian dollar), it's not going to be a focal point of the statement because they are less concerned now about Canadian dollar appreciation than they were a year ago. The economy has had time to adjust and get used to a stronger Canadian dollar.
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We're seeing some last-minute dollar strength, but there's really nothing much to it considering we're completely dead in terms of economic releases.
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Canada's trade balance tends to attract less attention given that it's in pretty healthy shape. But going into the (U.S.) trade balance, I imagine the market is positioned short dollars because it's forecast to widen. Risks are skewed towards a larger deficit.
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It looks like another day of (the U.S. dollar versus the Canadian dollar) remaining pressured as the U.S. dollar continues to lose ground across the board.
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It really got attention in Asia...as a result the dollar has pretty much sold off across the board. We can attribute this dollar/Cad movement to across-the-board dollar weakness to the Greg Ip article.
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The market remains very bullish on the Canadian dollar and is happy to buy it when they have a reason to, but they don't really want to sell it, despite what they're being told by the market.
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The previous month was huge, so of course we were expecting a weaker number. The important thing is how it compares with the month's trade deficit.
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We're particularly conscious of the need to help spouses. Usually the diplomats will be able to speak the language, whereas spouses might not. So it can be a very isolating experience. So we do try to give a lot of support through what we call community liaison officers.
bit positions taking traders wary
We've had a bit of range-trading. I think traders have been a bit wary about taking positions on dollar/Canada today.
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We had to go to our passing game tonight. They did a great job of shutting our running game down.
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My feeling is that it's going to hint at much more aggressive monetary policy moving forward given the hawkish nature of Tuesday's statement.
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But between Yellen and the minutes, there seemed to be a bit of confirmation that indeed that would stop at 5 percent, and the market's just readjusting that right now.