Weekly Focus: A Sense of Relief

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Following a wall of discouraging data recently things turned more upbeat this week, as we received positive surprises from both the US and China coupled with a continued flow of solid eurozone data. There is little doubt that the US remains in a slowdown phase

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Weekly Focus: A Sense of Relief

Nonfarm Positive Surprise: Shouldn’t USD Rally?

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Here is the market’s apparent logic of late: we supposed to sell the USD because the economy in the US is looking so terrible and weak data means ever lower US yields and a Fed that will devalue the USD to save the economy.

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Nonfarm Positive Surprise: Shouldn’t USD Rally?

FX Market Skittish Before ECB

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

The rally in risk appetite boosted by strong Chinese and Australian data yesterday was further encouraged after our last article by stronger than expected US ISM numbers.

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FX Market Skittish Before ECB