Steve Barrow
Steve Barrow
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People are clutching at straws if they think that the G20 will offer some kind of supportive comment for the euro. There are other countries at the G20 that are aggrieved at the weakness of their currency against the dollar -- Australia for one.
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Everyone is looking towards (U.S. Treasury Secretary) Larry Summers from the U.S. to tone down his comments on the dollar. His comments at the G20 are crucial if central banks are to intervene again to prop up the euro.
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Dollar/yen is slightly higher, perhaps as a consequence of that, with some of the comments sounding a little bit more hopeful in the sense of them not pushing on the anti-China trade legislation that they've brought to Congress. But we'll have to see what happens when they get back (to the U.S.).
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Our sights remain on a plunge to 80 cents. If Duisenberg's most recent comments are correct, it looks as if intervention is stumbling already.
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We feel that the ECB should take inflation by the scruff of the neck and raise rates by a half percentage point,
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We've seen some selling earlier this week, but a good number will show the general strength of the U.S. economy and help the dollar. Payrolls will be the key indicator as far as the Fed is concerned.
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Markets are nervous about the outlook for euro entry. The market is pricing in the possibility of a remote chance of entry into the euro in the next parliament.
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Markets are nervous about the outlook for euro entry, ... The market is pricing in the possibility of a remote chance of entry into the euro in the next parliament.
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I'm still skeptical whether we will see a hike from the ECB this year. The fact the ECB won't deliver on rate hikes this year will probably pull the euro back.
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Will the market push on for $1.05 this year and $1.10 by this time next year? We definitely believe that it will be the latter.
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We don't expect a cut and we're not even convinced there will be a change in the Fed's bias. If the market is factoring in a cut, then it may come a cropper as a result.
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With the FOMC meeting tomorrow the market is hardly going to care too much for the US data today.
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We believe the euro could slide to 85 cents and things could get a lot worse, with the Danish referendum going against joining the euro.
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The Canadian currency is still performing very well especially in the face of a slightly disappointing retail number. The Bank of Canada's meeting next week will be the focus. A rate hike next week is most likely.