Dollar strengthened as New York Fed walked back Williams’ comments

July 29, 2019

By IFCMarkets

US dollar bullish bets inched up to $15.32 billion from $15.19 billion against the major currencies during the one week period, according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) covering data up to July 23 and released on Friday July 26. The dollar strengthening resumed as steep interest rate cut expectations at July 30-31 meeting moderated after New York Fed said Williams’ comments about need to ‘act quickly’ referred to his academic research and not upcoming Federal Reserve meeting, and University of Michigan consumer sentiment index was revised upward.

 

CFTC Sentiment vs Exchange Rate

July 23 2019 Bias Ex RateTrend Position $ mln Weekly Change
CAD bullish negative 2341 739
AUD bearish negative -3360 325
EUR bearish negative -5437 -1044
GBP bearish negative -6109 -189
CHF bearish negative -1674 -190
JPY bearish negative -1083 231
Total -15322

 

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