John Kyriakopoulos
John Kyriakopoulos
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As such, currency moves are being exaggerated as small lumpy flows meet low liquidity.
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U.S. economic reports serve to remind investors that U.S. economic growth remains solid, and as long as this continues, writing the U.S. dollar off could prove a costly strategy.
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While commodity prices have been rising Australia's interest rate spread has been narrowing.
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While a hawkish sounding ECB will protect the downside for the euro in the short term -- support looks solid back to 1.2050 -- the fragile euro-zone economy argues against any interest rate increases for sometime to come.
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Perceptions that Japanese interest rates would not be rising much appeared to reverse earlier concerns about an end to carry trades, which supported the Australian dollar.
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The price action of the last few days does suggest a potential exhaustion in the dollar's rally,
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It plays to the risks of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand cutting rates earlier than its current track suggests.
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The news on the Australian economy has been far from upbeat. A benign consumer price index report will make the likelihood of another RBA rate hike disappear completely and this will potentially weigh on the Australian dollar.
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It's more of the same, with the perception that carry trades are being unwound, and that Japanese bond yields rose further today probably added to that trend.
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It will be a tough first half of the year for the U.S. dollar with the Fed peaking with rates. The euro will do okay in the first half on expectations the ECB will tighten rates.
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The Australian dollar is being hurt by the rise in global bond yields, driven by expectations all three major central banks will be raising interest rates this year. This is hurting commodities.
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There are clearly upside risks around the consensus expectations for non-farm payrolls. As such, we would not be short the U.S. dollar over the next 24 hours.
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We're back to 5 percent expectations and the dollar is recovering from its sharp slide of last week. The dollar has a little further to go.
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Today's BOJ meeting is a momentous event. The end of quantitative easing is near. The market doesn't necessarily believe it will happen today, but if it doesn't happen today it will be April.