Dollar bullish bets slip on lower than expected inflation

October 22, 2018

By IFCMarkets

US dollar net long bets slipped last week to $27.64 billion from $27.79 billion against the major currencies during the previous week, according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) covering data up to October 16 and released on Friday October 19. The dollar bullish bets edged lower as the 2.4% consumer inflation was lower than expected for September after 2.7% increase in August and the 0.1% rise in retail sales in September was less than expected.

 

CFTC Sentiment vs Exchange Rate

October 16 2018BiasEx RateTrendPosition $ mlnWeekly Change
CADbearishnegative-85287
AUDbearishnegative-5104100
EURbearishnegative-4244-1925
GBPbearishnegative-4148820
CHFbearishnegative-2086-472
JPYbearishnegative-112041546
Total-27639

 

commitment of traders net long short
commitment of traders weekly change
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