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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis

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To: zamboz who wrote (21884)8/9/2009 8:34:52 PM
From: RockyBalboa  Read Replies (3) of 71456
 
Yes it seems so, perhaps this weeks Japanese numbers provide some hints.

As for the yen it always seems to overdo; a while back we had this absurd 3c move in the yen, and it became something like this after some infighting, while we were looking, what is broken (again) after so much stimulus and stock market boom:

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What can a trader do - not much. Since currencies are meanwhile more mean reverting than interest rates, one can only resort to long-standing correlations.

For the yen it is no secret that it is negatively correlated to the oil price, in the short and very long term be it for fundamental reasons (as they have to import most energy) or risk reasons, commodities trades are often done in combination with yen carry trades.

As for the printing the question is still subject to solve: Who prints faster?
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