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Matt’s Line in the Sand 5/20 – 5/24/13

Number One Threat to Dollar Rally This Week

Strap on your seatbelts because it is going to be another active and busy week in the foreign exchange market.  If you’ve watching the price action of currencies over the past ...

Dollar Rally (What the Skeptics are Saying)

We have made it clear that we like the U.S. dollar and think USD/JPY is headed for a break of 103 and the EUR/USD down to 1.28. However there are many skeptics out there who argue that ...

Live Cattle (What’s for Lunch?)

Live cattle futures are lower by 9% in 2013 putting August futures at $120. I have drawn a red horizontal line at the bottom of this chart and if this level holds it could prove to ...
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Disjointed Market – Where are flows Going?

Equities and 30-yr bonds are far from the only two asset classes as investors have several other choices when allocating capital, but I want to touch on these two sectors as their movements ...

Cocoa – Will your Milky Way cost less in Two Months?

Global food prices rose 1% in April, with levels now only 9% below the peak reached in February 2011, according to the United Nations. This was driven predominantly by a sharp rise ...

Will USD/JPY Break 100 This Week?

The U.S. dollar is trading higher against all of the major currencies this morning and the lack of U.S. data means some currencies are experiencing deep sell-offs and others shallow ...

Don’t Mess with the ECB

What a morning it has been in the forex market!  The euro shot above 1.32 after the European Central Bank’s rate decision but sold off aggressively when Mario Draghi said the ...
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The Great Gold Redemption

  The most puzzling part of the investment business is seeing how the vast and largely economically illiterate masses interpret any given piece of news. Take the recent ...

Don’t Expect Too Much from Ben’s Merry Band of Economists

FX Traders Shouldn’t Expect Much from FOMC The Federal Reserve’s 2 day monetary policy meeting comes to an end tomorrow with a decision at 2pm ET.  Leading up to the rate ...