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RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... export growth and bump up imports. Sure the US dollar has weakened slightly in recent days from a high of 100.39 (US dollar index) in March but at 95.14, it remains 4.4% higher than its 2015 opening level and 19.7% above its level this time last year. ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... because of?) indications of slowing momentum in the US economy has reversed the upward course of the US dollar. The US dollar index has now weakened to 96.1 - a 4.3% drop from the 100.4 peak hit only last month. On the flipside, the A$ has shot up above ...

The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... lift-off. The US dollar would be soaring if the markets really, truly believed this, would it not? But nah, the US dollar index (saves me from quoting the greenback's exchange against a host of currencies) fell on the same day that the "bad" inflation ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... to trade against the US dollar from +/-1% to +/-2%. That was good when the US dollar was relatively weak - the US dollar index was around 75 at the time, it's now around 99.5 (a 33% appreciation!). So now China's currency is appreciating +/-2% along ...

Strike three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... reversal in the A$/US$ exchange from yesterday's sharp rebound a function of the re-strengthened greenback - the US dollar index gained by 1.2% overnight - or ramped expectations that the RBA will cut interest rates in May? For sure, it's a hundred percent ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... over its place. The tale of the tape over the past week showed that Wall Street was pleased - the VIX index, the US dollar index and US bond yields fell from the prior week (before the Fed) while the US equity market rose. Yippee-kay-yay! Kudos to Madame ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... was financial markets went the opposite way to where they were expected to go. The VIX index dove by 10.8% The US dollar index dropped by 2.3%; the yield on 10-year US Treasuries dropped by 13 bps to 1.92% and the yield on 2-years declined by 12 bps ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... candlestick maker, your uncle and his dog, this time, couldn't have enough of the green stuff - the US dollar. The US dollar index (for major currencies) appreciated by 7.3% from its lowest level to the highest back in 2013. It's done around 10% so far ...

Patience, my dear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... in keeping the word "patient" at this month's FOMC gabfest. Oh, by the by, there's one thing that changed. The US dollar index has appreciated by around another 10% since - this is on top of its 11.9% appreciation in 2014. Another indicator that points ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... down 1.4%; the Dow, down 1.5%; the Nasdaq, down 1.1%; and the Russell 2000, down 1.4%. They all jumped too. The US dollar index rose by 1.3%; yields on US 10-year bonds increased by 13 basis points to 2.24% -- its highest level since the day before Xmas ...

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