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By: Donal TodayFX - 14-07-2008
0votesCurrency markets are very volatile at present with the fallout from stock markets and commodity markets essentially dictating the short-term direction of all the major currencies. Economic data is hardly getting a look in as panic of financial market collapse in the US becomes the over-riding factor. One striking observation from the past few weeks is that the euro has replaced the yen as the market’s preferred ‘risk aversion’ currency, when stresses are undermining global financial markets. The primary reasons for this is the single currency’s more attractive higher yield and a hawkish ECB. All of the high yielding currencies, in particular sterling and the Aussie dollar, have done particularly well in the past month, despite the crash in global stock markets. The yen is the worst performing currency during this period, which is something of a major surprise, given the yen steamrolled everything before it during the last 3 bouts of major risk aversion in March, January and last August. Sentiment surrounding the US dollar is at an all-time low because of the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac mortgage lending crisis in the US and because oil prices refuse to let up. Traders are using every ounce of bad news to push up the price of crude and thus put downward pressure on the dollar, which in turn gives added impetus to the spike in prices for the wider commodity class, creating a vicious cycle. It may take direct market intervention to break this cycle because commodity investors are not being deterred by the global economic slowdown theory, while confidence in the wider financial market system is at an all-time low.
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