Foreign Exchange Insights and Next Week
Currency World at Midsummer
July 16, 2019
The unofficial summer season occupies the period between the U.S. Memorial Day and Labor Day holidays, and the start of this week marked the midpoint of that interlude. This period when market participants take their longer vacations can be a time of discontinuity that lends itself to currency market volatility and trading that is less […] More
New Overnight Developments Abroad - Daily Update
Stronger Dollar
July 16, 2019
The dollar strengthened overnight by 0.9% against sterling, 0.6% relative to the peso, 0.4% versus the euro and Swiss franc, 0.3% vis-a-vis the yen, 0.2% against the Aussie dollar and 0.1% versus the kiwi. In other euro cross-rate developments, sterling weakened to a half-year low against the common currency, but the Swiss franc is hovering […] More
