Headlines are stating that the US may introduce a coronavirus stimulus plan in recent days, which significantly lift risk-on tilts, spurring a USD selling, a EUR rise, and a EUR/USD close to 1.1800.
The DXY recently picked up a small risk-averse bid as the US presidential election is approaching.
USDX has experienced a sharper volatility since this year. And it continues dropping despite of the temporary rally in US stock market stimulated by the hawkish fiscal and monetary policy.
Affected by the Fed decision, the US dollar, technically speaking, has showed an overall trend of weakness recently, with a high volatility.
On Wednesday, U.S. stocks grew at the expense of the haven-associated USD, curbing its gains and punishing AUZ, NZD & GBP at the same time.
On Tuesday, gold prices witnessed the biggest loss for seven years while USD embraced its biggest gain since early June. Driven by this, the markets of stocks, forex, oil and precious metals showed mixed performance.
DXY has slid as more as 10% since this March and the losses have deepened in recent weeks amid the second wave of the pandemic. The theoretical dollar smile has flattened, sending a painful “grin” to investors instead.
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Stephen Roach, a senior researcher at Yale University, is anxious that the constantly changing global landscape and the huge budget deficit of the United States would lead to a collapse in USD.
After all three of the major US stock indices went up yesterday, the market’s risk appetite was also reflected in currencies, including AUD and NZD.
According to Reuters' calculations and the latest data released by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), speculative dollar net short positions have increased to the highest level in the past two years in last week
A controversial new rule being implemented by Donald Trump will pave the way for the US to impose punitive tarrifs on the goods from countries with undervalued exchange rate, said the US department of commerce.
Jeffrey Gundlach, the CEO of DoubleLine Capital nicknamed “King of Bonds”, said he is expecting US dollar to go weak. He pointed out that due to US dollar’s relevance to the “twin deficits” of US in current account and budgets, the currency will likely drop in price.
The Federal Reserve meeting is likely to influence the near-term outlook for the US Dollar as the central bank is widely expected to deliver another 25bp rate cut.
Though tentative, market participants latched on to nascent signs that trade war conditions may improve and the threat of recession is not as imminent as many fear. This would be the perfect opportunity for monetary policy to further leverage the uneven swell in sentiment. The ECB will start a run
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Scheduled event risk is starting to give way to sentiment and systemic fundamental concerns a prospect that threatens volatility at a time of year when quiet is supposed to prevail. Trade wars are finding guidance from headlines that President Trump regularly tops, while recession fears are tied more closely to
The US Dollar may rise if the Fed meeting minutes and commentary at the Jackson Hole symposium spooks markets and boost demand for liquidity.
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