The dollar and yen have softened after rallying strongly yesterday on safe haven demand. Short-term speculative participants and others accumulated large long exposures in these currencies, particularly in yen crosses such as CAD-JPY, and there has naturally been some impetus to book profits with U.S. and European equity index futures finding a footing after yesterday’s […]
Despite the largely risk-on backdrop in N.Y. on Thursday, the Dollar rallied broadly. Solid incoming data appeared to have a bit of a delayed reaction from the FX market, as Q3 GDP beat consensus forecasts, as did the weekly jobless claims figures. The DXY rallied to one-month highs of 94.10, up from overnight lows of […]
The dollar and more especially the yen rebounded from intraday weakness. EUR-USD inched towards yesterday’s low at 1.1717, with the pair at levels prevailing in the late London morning showing a modest 20-pip-plus (approx) decline on yesterday’s low. EUR-JPY was down quite sharply, putting the cross below the 122.00 level for the first time since […]
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