Cross-asset confidence supporting risk
The FOMC’s December taper should have been the event which would signal the end of secular declines in FX volatility. Although there are other major central banks which continue to use unconventional measures to suppress volatility, the Fed remains the marginal provider of liquidity and it is a surprise that a material adjustment has barely registered. Policy may be easy to change proactively, investor behaviour is harder.
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