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CFTC: EUR short reduced as dollar selling continued
Speculative traders in IMM currency futures continued to sell dollars ahead of Jackson Hole last Friday. The data covering the week ending August 28 showed an aggregate dollar short position of USD 5 billion with most of the selling occuring against the EUR and to a lesser extent the JPY and CAD.
European FX Daily
* Majors pared gains, Asian markets mixed * Korea’s current account surplus hit record in July * Norges bank likely on hold, Brazil central bank likely to deliver rate cuts
CFTC: Dollar position negative for the first time in 11 months
Money managers continued as net sellers of dollars for the fifth week in a row according to data from the CFTC covering the end of trading on August 21, which was one day ahead of the release of the dovish Federal Open Market Committee minutes from the US Federal Reserve.
CFTC: AUD gross long in new record; Aggregate dollar long drops
Money managers and other speculative traders continued to reduce their long dollar positions during the week ending August 14. The aggregate dollar position versus the eight IMM currency futures which we track in this report dropped to USD 4.6 billion, which is the lowest level in 11 months.
Dbdaily: European Edition
HEADLINES… * Markets: EU/US equities modestly in the red on weekend comments from ECB’s Coene and as newswires report a possible challenge to the German Constitutional Court’s ESM ruling, CHN bourses also a little softer early Tuesday but most of Asia in the black.
CFTC: Net dollar long at six month low; AUD receives another lift
Speculative investors in the eight IMM currency futures tracked in this report continued to scale back their dollar long positions for a third week.
CFTC: Positive dollar sentiment weakens further
The weekly data from the US CFTC covering the week ending July 31 showed another big reduction in the aggregate net long dollar position held by hedge funds and other large speculators in IMM currency futures.
Speculative Positions
Normalization of previous risk-off positioning the major theme Summary of the non-commercial (“speculative”) accounts in the CoT report (June 27 – July 3)
CFTC: Dollar long extended ahead of Fridays violent price action
The latest data from the CFTC covering the week ending June 26 showed that speculative traders in IMM currency futures increased their aggregate long dollar position by 20 percent to USD 27 billion.
CFTC: Dollar long cut by 44 percent; AUD back to neutral
Hedge funds and other money managers cut their net dollar long exposure through IMM currency futures by 44 percent following the Greek election and ahead of the US Federal Open market Committee meeting.
Currency Outlook: Euro fallout: GBP beware schadenfreude
We believe Greece will remain in the euro, but analyse the situation using a simple decision tree framework to look at other possible scenarios. We would caution that GBP may not be the shelter from the euro storm that many suggest. There are grounds for GBP’s resilience, but these could vanish were the euro situation […]
FX CFTC: Dollar long rising again – look out for the correction
Speculators expressing their views through the holding of IMM currency futures increased their net long exposure to the dollar again during the week ending May 29. The increase however was the smallest recorded during the last four weeks of dollar buying with the selling not concentrated against one single currency alone but spread out particularly […]