Interest-rate advantage is still the only game in town for the currency markets. There's no doubt the dollar can gain further. |
It takes comparably low amounts of orders to trigger moves. I don't think there's much meaning in it. |
It was a bad number, and traders don't have anything else important to trade off today. |
People are cautious about buying the dollar at the moment. The U.S. needs a lot of investment to fund the deficit and the bigger it gets the harder that task becomes. |
The dollar's cyclical factors are waning but they haven't banished totally. The market is keen on switching to structural dollar stress factors but it's too early -- we also had strong housing figure from the U.S. last week. |
The dollar's cyclical factors are waning but they haven't banished totally. The market is keen on switching to structural dollar stress factors but it's too early -- we also had strong housing figures from the U.S. last week. |
The Japanese economy has improved and we expect this to continue. |
The yen will stay under pressure because of interest rate differentials. I am not so confident how this rise in CPI will enhance the chance for a premature interest rate hike in Japan. |
There's been dollar weakness as people have scaled back rate expectations. The market has got the impression that the fantasy the Fed would go past 5 percent was exaggerated. |
They're going to repeat their optimism on the state of the economy. People are expecting rate increases sometime this year. So this is all going to give the yen strength. |