Dollar’s Best Rally in 18 Months Will Stall Without Catalyst Looking into the dollar’s backdrop, there is little of the fundamental motivation we would normally expect the currency to advance on. Without a turn in speculative appetites, groundswell in the market’s rate forecasts or material drop in other majors; the dollar’s rally is ...
US Dollar Rally at the Mercy of Volatility, Interest Rate Trends The Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index (ticker = USDollar) mounted its biggest rally in six months this past week. That is a serious reversal of fortune from the technical collapse the currency was facing in the first half of July. Yet, the transition from rebound to full-blown ...
US Dollar Fails to Break Despite Stellar NFPs. Where are the Trades? The Dollar tumbled to fresh yearly lows through the past week, but a late week reversal actually left the Dollar Index higher on the week. Is this the start of a more significant Dollar reversal? Exogenous Threat to Euro Exists as ECB Policy Diverges from BoE, Fed The ECB’s ‘lower for longer’ stance is prohibitive for the Euro because the British Pound and the US Dollar are being bombarded with strong economic ...
EUR/USD Stays Motionless 'We've kind of traded sideways a little bit. It's largely technical, but there's some geopolitical headlines that may be weighing on risk appetite.' - Commonwealth Foreign Exchange (based on Bloomberg) Pair's Outlook There are still no consistency among the technical indicators, as they are pointing in different directions on the weekly an monthly time-frames. Nevertheless, the currency pair is considered to be capable of rising ...
Article summary: Widening divergences in interest rate forecasts and the reality that volatility cannot continue to tread levels this low for much longer has traders on edge and looking for opportunity. US Dollar Will Settle for Euro As Recovery Driver in Absence of Volatility The most effective means for leveraging a significant rally from the US Dollar is for a shock to resonate through the global financial system. Yet, hoping for volatility is just that – hope. ...
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