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The Dollar index climbed to two-week highs in N.Y. trade on Friday, with decent incoming retail sales and industrial production supporting. In addition, pre-weekend safe-haven USD buying was apparent,with traders loading up on the back of geopolitical risk, especially in the Mideast. Read more
Both the Dollar and Yen outperformed while the Australian Dollar led the biggest loser list out of the main currencies as a safe-haven theme swept back over global markets. This followed the release of disappointing industrial production data out of China, which fell to a 17-month low growth rate, shining a fresh light on the impact that the trade war with the U.S. Read more
The Australian Dollar continued to weaken amid a backdrop of misfiring equity markets in Asia, led by a decline in the major Chinese indexes ahead of the release of Chinese production and retail sales data (due 07:00 GMT) that are expected to shine a fresh light on the deleterious impact that the trade spat with the U.S. Read more
The Dollar gained a little traction in N.Y. on Thursday, with the DXY heading from opening lows of 96.90 to one-week highs of 97.08. The Greenback edged higher despite softer Treasury yields, which were helped lower by soggy import price data. We have seen gradual USD short covering in place this week, ahead of the FOMC next week, and after fairly sharp losses seen since the beginning if June. Read more
The Dollar has held net steady versus the Euro and Yen, paring intraday losses in the case against the latter, while AUD-CAD dropped quite sharply amid the juxtaposition of record lows in Australian sovereign debt yields and a Loonie-supporting 2.5%-plus rally in oil prices. Read more
The Australian Dollar has underperformed so far today, dropping nearly 0.5% against the Yen, which remained an outperformed amid a backdrop of sputtering stock markets in Asia. AUD-JPY pegged a fresh five-month low at 74.77. AUD-USD concurrently printed a two-week low at 0.6904 and USD-JPY a three-day low at 108.16. Read more
The Dollar came under pressure early in N.Y. trade on Wednesday, following a cooler core U.S. CPI outcome. The CPI print kept potential Fed rate cuts front and center, weighing on the Greenback generally. Later, a round of USD short covering stepped in, taking the DXY to highs of the week at 96.97, up from early lows of 96.59. Read more
The Yen has seen a modest outperformance as a risk-back-off theme ensued in global markets, while the Dollar picked up bids at the expense of the Euro, which came under pressure after German and Portuguese auctions of 10-year paper produced record low yields. Read more
A modest risk-back-off theme descended, which drove a bid for Yen and offers for commodity currencies. The biggest mover out of the main Dollar pairings and associated cross rates we monitor has been AUD-JPY, which is an effective forex market barometer of risk appetite in global markets. Read more
