Attack of USD

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EUR/USD

The single currency depreciated against the dollar yesterday. Having started Thursday at 1.3660, EURUSD finished it at 1.3550. It fell right to the area, where it had begun its upsurge a week before on the release of strong PMI stats. In our opinion, that movement was nothing more than washing out of short positions. Too many spoke about strength of the dollar on the threshold of the Fed’s meeting. In such cases big players often announce hunting for stops and kick a part of small investors off the market. It gives an opportunity to sell expensive or buy cheap, depending on more…

EM vs DM

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EUR/USD

In the Fed default softness gave place to default tapering. Yesterday FOMC announced reduction in purchasing of bonds and mortgage-backed securities by 10bln dollars starting with the next month (by 5bln in each group). This decision in general met the market expectations as the reaction was relatively moderate. The range of fluctuations in EURUSD after the news release didn’t exceed 30 pips. Partly it was due to the fact that earlier in the day there was stop-hunting with orders collected between 1.3650 and 1.3600. It was really surprising to see how EURUSD dropped from 1.3685 to the daily low of 1.3602 more…

Emerging defensive

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USD/TRY

Emerging markets are on the defensive now. The capital outflow from such countries as India and Turkey made their CBs sharply raise the interest rates, thus making investment in these currencies more attractive. Last night the Turkish CB increased its overnight lending rate from 7.75% to 12%, and one-week repo rate from 4.5% to 10.0%. This measure, surprising in its scale, boosted a rally in the emerging markets and supported strengthening even of such currencies as the Australian dollar. Albeit at a smaller scale, yesterday the Russian CB conducted interventions at approximately a billion dollars, along with that exceeding the more…

AUD got a chance of consolidation

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EUR/USD

The US stock markets are still suffering heavy selling. Bulls are retreating not only because of the expectations of QE reduction from the Fed, but also because of the unimpressive corporate reports. Index futures have an opportunity for a respite only when the US trading session is over. It was yesterday and the same movement we can observe today. The euro/dollar keeps ignoring fluctuations of stock indices, which is not typical of this pair. Yesterday the currency made another attempt to find demand on growth. The attempt proved to be futile, the pair was turned around straight above 1.37 with the more…

Currencies and stocks are again apart

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EUR/USD

The euro’s behaviour on Friday was really unnerving. Having summoned up all strength with the help of other currencies, bulls directed all efforts to sweep away bearish positions in the pair. For a couple of hours the pair was pushed from the daily low of 1.3660 up to 1.3738 and then was accurately put back to 1.3677. Forex hasn’t managed to go far from this level by now and trading is held at 1.3685. The calmness of the currency market is noteworthy as in the meantime stock exchanges suffered heavy selling. It is also true that earlier stocks felt good as more…