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USDCAD. Markets have been under pressure this week. Currently, the Dow is down 1.6% to 13,132, and WTI crude is trading under 87 per barrel. This does not mean that the markets will not reverse but the bearish catalyst has been disappointing earnings. And so, against the backdrop of falling...

COT (Commitment of Traders) Report, 09 October 2012. During the latest COT reporting period, currency speculators, in the aggregate, reduced their USD short position by over 107K contracts. From the peak USD short position of 267,878 contracts on September 25th, that position has been reduced to...

Last evening the bond rating company S&P reduced the ratings of Spanish sovereign debt toward the junk level. As might be expected, this proved bearish on the euro versus the USD, taking the pair down close to the 200-day SMA at 1.2825. Then it bounced and has since rallied to the 1.2940 area...

ECB President Mario Draghi took his team of traveling bankers to Ljubljana, Slovenia, population about 272K, and about 801km. away from Frankfurt. Despite the new venue, it does not appear the bankers have any different policies that will address the various needs and wishes of all parties...

Was ECB President Draghi's promise to defend the integrity and future of the euro premature? All we have so far is a bunch of guesses of what the future defense of the euro might be. In the meantime, the employment numbers coming from Europe are bleak. It was announced yesterday that...

The latest COT report shows that speculators reduced their net USD long by 45,518 contracts. The biggest shifts occurred in the yen and the Australian Dollar. In the yen speculators flipped from a net short position of 7,323 to a net long of 12,201 contracts. The Australian Dollar benefitted...

The European Central Bank President, Mario Draghi, at a meeting in London yesterday, led cheers for the future of the euro. Draghi said: "Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough." There is no way to know if these...

Once again currency futures speculators increased their euro and Swiss franc shorts. The total euro short advanced to 204,608 contracts and the SF to 35,035. Since the Swiss National Bank has pegged the franc with the euro, the franc is merely a proxy for the euro. Specs also have a large...

In the reporting period ended on July 1st, the aggregate net USD long was reduced by 89.4K contracts, approximately about one third of the previous total long. With the total USD long down to 174,734 contracts, this is the smallest long position specs have had in the USD since the report of May...