Category: US Dollar
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Investors, Put the U.S. Dollar on Your Radar Screen Now / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Marty_Chenard
FYI for this week: "Put the U.S. Dollar on your radar screen".
Zhang Jianhua, the head of research at the People's Bank of China is getting very nervous now.
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Euro USD Currency Elliott Wave Technical Analysis / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Tony_Caldaro
We have written about the Euro in sections of various reports before, but this is the first report dedicated just to the EURUSD. The Euro, the currency of the European Union, replaced the ECU, a basket of european currencies, in 1999 on a 1:1 basis. For the record the Euro officially started trading in 1999. However, we do have charts for the ECU going back to 1991. In the 1990′s the basket of ECU currencies contained twelve different currencies.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
US Dollar DX Index Very Long Term Charts / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Jesse
The DX Index I normally show is the continuous futures contract on the DX index. The front month is now June.
The Fed also publishes two other dollar indices: major currency index, and the broad currency index. The major currency index is essentially the basis for the Wall Street DX futures index.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
The U.S. Dollar Cycle / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Toby_Connor
For many months now I've been warning we were going to have a dollar crisis and that dollar crisis would drive the final leg up in gold's ongoing two year C-wave advance. We are now on the verge of the panic selling stage of this three year cycle.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Can U.S. Dollar Weakness Mean Stock Market Weakness? / Stock-Markets / US Dollar
By: Jason_Kaspar
Are there any dollar bulls left? Inflationists across the web are crying ‘victory’ as the dollar sinks and certain asset prices (especially oil prices, food prices, and the gold price) mushroom higher. To the level headed, you should exercise extreme caution against assumed fixed correlations like “weak dollar” means “asset price increases.” Correlations can quickly change.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
U.S. Dollar Review and Outlook / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Axel_Merk
We believe that continued U.S. dollar weakness may be a consequence of the diverging monetary approaches central banks are taking around the globe. While many international central banks have been on a tightening path, raising rates (i.e. central banks of: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Norway, Sweden, to name but a few), the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) has been conspicuous in its continued easing monetary policy stance. Indeed, while other central banks have been shrinking the size of their balance sheets, the U.S. Fed’s balance sheet continues to expand on the back of ongoing quantitative easing policies.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
U.S. Dollar Index Down Trend Intact / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Guy_Lerner
In my last look at the Dollar Index, I pointed out that the Dollar doesn't seem relevant anymore, and as long as the down trend was under control, then all seem to be ok. The trend is still down, and the technicals would suggest that we will be visiting the all time lows last seen in 2008 at some point in the near future. At that point, I surmise things will start to get interesting.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Economics 101: Long Material, Short Certified Idiots / Economics / US Dollar
By: Fred_Sheehan
Some relationships:
The last time the U.S. dollar exceeded 120 on the dollar index (ticker symbol DXY: a measurement of the dollar against other currencies) was in January 2002. The close on April 8, 2011, was 75.08, a 37 % decline.
Since January, 2002, gold has risen from $282 to $1,475 an ounce, also quoted at the April 8, 2011, close
Friday, April 08, 2011
U.S. Dollar Crisis Looms, Spike in Interest Rates Following End of QE2 / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Chris_Kitze
Chris Martenson writes: As a major currency crisis looms in the west, there are some things that we should all expect. Lifestyle changes that we don't have to imagine, but ones we can see happening right in front of us today. Now the catalyst for the beginning of a major currency crisis could be several things. To note just a few, QE2 ending would cause a spike in interest rates, banking crisis, and inevitably a debt crisis that would lead to a dollar crisis.
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011
The Falling US Dollar / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Tony_Pallotta
Below is a monthly chart of the USD index (DXY) since 2000. In that period of time it has died a slow death down 37%. A currency is like a stock in a company and this is one company shareholders continue to sell. Whether it be the shrinking manufacturing base, millions in lost jobs, rising debt, weak leadership, lack of new products in the pipeline to fuel growth, this company (excuse me country) is in trouble right now.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
U.S. Dollar Has Cancer and its Metastasising / Currencies / US Dollar
By: GoldSilver
All you can do is play the hand you are dealt.
This is not going to be pretty. When it happens, it is not going to be good for most people. It's only going to be good for a few. Those who hold physical gold and silver.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The Death of the "Dollar Carry Trade" / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
By maintaining a Federal Funds rate below the 0.25% level - and injecting $600 billion into the banking system through a second round of quantitative easing - the U.S. Federal Reserve has orchestrated a bubble-like surge in commodity prices, an uptick in global inflation and a historic resurgence in U.S. stock prices.
The low-interest-rate strategy has enabled the U.S. central bank to achieve another important objective - a massive depreciation in the value of the U.S. dollar.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
US Dollar, Making a Case for the Greenback / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Submissions
R.F. Lee writes: The US Dollar has been on a pronounced downtrend since the middle of 2010, and has been threatening its record lows as of this writing at the end of March 2011. In the week of 21 March 2011, the greenback registered new lows against Gold and the Australian Dollar, and also reached a 31-year low against silver.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
US Dollar Under Acute Pressure As World seeks an Alternative Reserve Currency / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Bob_Chapman
The days and years of manipulation, fraud and criminal behavior are fast coming to an end. New alliances are evolving, as are outspoken advocates of a new world reserve currency. As a result more and more foreigners are bypassing Treasury and Agency bonds, as well as other US dollar denominated investments. We watch as other major nations accumulate gold and cannot help but think that the new world reserve currency will be gold backed.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
U.S. Dollar Collapse Inevitable, Gold Wealth Protection / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Jeff_Clark
What will happen to the U.S. economy and the dollar in the near term? Will inflation increase dramatically? What is the outlook for gold, and where should you put your money? BIG GOLD asked a world-class panel of economists, authors, and investment advisors what they expect for the future. Caution: strong opinions ahead...
Monday, March 21, 2011
U.S. Dollar Breakdown or Reversal? / Currencies / US Dollar
By: John_Hampson
The US Dollar has now broken beneath long term rising support, as shown in the first chart below of the US Dollar index. There are other support levels below, around 75 and then 72, but beneath that we would enter unchartered territory, as shown in the second longer term chart, and the weakness of the latest dollar bounce is notable.
Monday, March 21, 2011
U.S. Dollar End Game / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Toby_Connor
For months and months I've been warning investors that the dollar was going to come under extreme pressure sometime this year. I expected it to probably happen in the spring. Many people thought I was nuts. They were sure it was the Euro that would collapse, despite the fact that the EU is doing everything they can to protect their currency while Bernanke is doing everything he can to destroy ours.
Monday, March 21, 2011
How the Fed Is Wrecking the U.S. Dollar / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Joseph_T_Salerno
Testimony before the US House of Representatives, Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Monetary Policy, March 17, 2011
The old argument has recently come back into vogue that moderate inflation is desirable to prevent the far greater evil of deflation. What used to be roundly condemned as "creeping inflation" in the 1950s by Fed officials and mainstream economists alike is today given the scientific-sounding name "inflation-targeting" and hailed as the proper goal of monetary policy.1 In the past decade, this view has been promoted by many mainstream economists, most notably former Fed Chairman Greenspan and current Fed chairman Bernanke. But this view is based on a fundamental confusion. It conflates deflation and depression, which are two very different phenomena. Falling prices are, under most circumstances, absolutely benign and the natural outcome of a prosperous and growing economy. The fear of falling prices is thus a phobia – I call it a "deflation-phobia" – which has no rational basis in economic theory or history.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Fed Policies of U.S. Dollar Destructionism / Interest-Rates / US Dollar
By: LewRockwell
James Grant writes: This testimony was delivered before the Ron Paul monetary subcommittee on March 16, 2011.
"What Should the Federal Reserve Do Next?" was the headline over the roundup of expert monetary opinion on the op-ed page of the Sept. 9 Wall Street Journal. The experts couldn't seem to agree. Buy Treasurys by the boatload, one counseled. Do nothing of the sort, urged another. Hew fast to the Taylor Rule, John B. Taylor, himself the author of the very rule, modestly proposed (i.e., fix the federal funds rate at one-and-a-half times the inflation rate plus one-half times the shortfall of GDP from potential, plus one). The half-dozen authorities shared not much common ground except to ignore the principles on which the dollar was defined in 1792 and those on which the Federal Reserve was enacted in 1913. The burden of this essay is that they thereby missed the point.
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Time to Bet on a RISING U.S. Dollar? / Currencies / US Dollar
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: You hear it over and over...
"Because of all the debts and the deficits, the dollar is about to crash."