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Renewable Energy The dollar index broke down to its weakest level since Dec 2014 yesterday. Despite Fed rate hikes and hawkish forward guidance, every Start the speed test and
bounce is sold as former fund manager Richard Breslow warns, for get all that, "This looks like the far more worrisome and potentially
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Which is kind of odd, since I’m sure I have made more money over the years being short rather than long.
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may be an adolescent rebellion against my seniors who told me way back when that I’d never amount to anything nor enjoy the benefits of a
Plaza Hotel lifestyle if I didn’t get it through my head that the dollar was going down.
At the moment, the dollar looks just awful. Yet it remains very tempting to want to call the turn. After all, based on so many of the more
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Capitalist Exploits Of more immediate interest is how the dollar is trying to leak through some pretty decent long-term moving averages. I’m talking
China Financial Markets monthly and quarterly, not the last week and a half. And yes, I fully realize that it’s early days and mood swings can be extreme at this time
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Put rate hikes, growth rates and the like aside for the moment. Let’s also not cite the twin deficits. This looks like
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The Automatic Earth It represents a crisis of confidence about the global reserve currency and country. Spend some time overseas
The Burning Platform and you won’t be surprised. It certainly doesn’t look or feel like some traders are getting too far out over their skis.
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The Hammerstone Group I can’t help but idly speculate whether the global reserve build up is a good thing because it increases the safety net,
The Vineyard Of The Saker or problematic because central bankers worry that they’ll need it. In any case, how this plays out will have a much
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The irony of it all, is we are all waiting for pushback on dollar weakness. Traders can’t wait to hear from ECB President Mario Draghi
next week. Yet if it’s official purchases of non-dollar currencies contributing to what is going on, their protests will wring a bit hollow. Sort
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We’ll see where this goes but we need to make sure the debate centers on the actual drivers at hand.

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