Category: US Dollar
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Is the U.S. Dollar About To Crush Stocks? / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Graham_Summers
Long-time readers know that I’ve begun to develop a love/hate relationship with the US Dollar. On one hand I believe the US currency is horribly flawed given our unserviceable debt load and the Fed’s profligate spending.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Do You Really Want To Short The U.S. Dollar? / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Andrew_Abraham
Lets face it…everyone seems to hate the US Dollar…Seems every Forex trader wants to be short the US dollar. So many think the US dollar will crash ( maybe it will..who knows).. but what I do know as a commodity trader..when too many traders are on the other side of the boat… something happens. My short on the US dollar was recently taken out.
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Sunday, November 01, 2009
U.S. Dollar Bull Market Scenario Update / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The most recent price action has seen the U.S. Dollar manage to hold onto USD 75 support that has propelled the dollar back through 76, however the trend over the past 2 months has been weak. The last update of the US Dollar bull market scenario of mid August 2009 called for a rally that targets USD 90 by the end of this year as long as 75 holds, as indicated by the original chart below :
Friday, October 30, 2009
U.S. Dollar the Coca-Cola of Monetary Brands says James Grant / Currencies / US Dollar
By: DailyWealth
Chris Mayer writes: The U.S. dollar is a sort of monetary brand.
And like any other brand, it can fall out of favor. Even iconic brands can rapidly lose their "must-have" cachet. Sometimes, a brand can disappear entirely, as did Pan American Airways or "Members Only" jackets. But there is always something else waiting to take its place. So it is with the U.S. dollar, a brand making lows in the financial markets.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
U.S. Dollar Future and a World Currency / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Thomas_R_Eddlem
Some very big questions
With the USD fluttering around 76 on the US Dollar currency basket index, the USDX it’s a good time to pontificate on its near term future, and longer term future. Gold’s big rally since 2002 begs a lot of major questions.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Will the U.S. Dollar Still be Worlds Reserve Currency in Five Years Time? / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Mike_Whitney
Interview with Menzie Chinn
Mike Whitney: What is the present composition of reserve holdings in central banks--and has there been a substantial falloff in US dollar reserves in recent years? (Are central banks ditching the dollar?)
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
U.S. Dollar Index Elliott Wave Analysis Update / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Alistair_Gilbert
One of the wonderful things about watching and trading currencies is the frequency with which they comply to Fibonacci retracements. Part of the reason is that the foreign exchange market is the most liquid and the most widely traded on a global basis, so Elliott Wave analysis, which is based on mass crowd psychology, works best.
Monday, October 26, 2009
The War on the U.S. Dollar / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Martin_D_Weiss
Last week, I showed you the most shocking numbers I’ve seen in my lifetime:
Up until the day Lehman Brothers collapsed in September of last year, it took the Fed 5,012 days — 13 years and 8 months — to double the cash currency and reserves in the coffers of U.S. banks.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
The War Over the U.S. Dollar Versus Gold / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Clif_Droke
A fierce war of words has erupted in recent weeks between the two major camps in monetary circles. The first camp – the gold bulls/dollar bears – have been loudly voicing their twin belief that the gold price is poised to skyrocket while the dollar price is perched for a collapse. The other side – the gold bears/dollar bulls – are making the counter claim the gold price is setting up for a crash.
Monday, October 26, 2009
U.S. Dollar Alert, Revenge of the Greenback? / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Clive_Maund
The dollar is at a crossroads and there are two probable scenarios. One is a final plunge following the recent grinding decline to an intermediate low that is followed by an intermediate reversal. The other is that it suddenly breaks out upside from the severe downtrend it has been stuck in since early March and rallies strongly, strongly because it is likely to be juiced by a sudden wave of panic short-covering.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Please Mr. Geithner, Don't Pass the Buck on the U.S. Dollar / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Michael_Pento
It seems nobody in this country wants to take responsibility for the secular decline in the value of the U.S. dollar. When Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is asked about the currency's decline, he refers the query to the Treasury Department. When the president is asked about the dollar, he often gives the tired old platitude that the U.S. has a strong dollar policy, but his vacuous words seem more like perfunctory utterances than a bona fide dollar-boosting strategy.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
U.S. Dollar Collapse Update, Obama Demanding Payment in Euros! / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Mike_Whitney
The "dollar debate" on the Internet has been ferocious and emotionally-charged, but sadly lacking in logic. To oppose the "dollar will crash" theorists is like arguing a woman's right to choose with the fist-waving throng assembled outside an abortion clinic. The results are equally disappointing. To say that "minds are already made up and the issue is settled", is an understatement. For many, the dollar's transition from the world's reserve currency to a Wiemar era Deutschemark is not a question "if" but only of "when". One reader summed up the distrust that's felt for anyone who dares to challenge the prevailing dogma like this:
Friday, October 23, 2009
King Dollar Forced to Abdicate / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Peter_Schiff
For the most part, the value of the dollar is given cursory attention by the financial media. Typically, its movements are assigned an importance on par with much less determinative metrics such as natural gas futures and construction permits. It's only when major milestones are reached that anyone really takes notice of the dollar. We are living through one of those times.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
U.S. Dollar Crash is Not Going to Happen / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Mike_Whitney
The dollar is not going to crash. In fact, many economists believe that the dollar will rally when the Fed ends its quantitative easing program (QE) sometime in early 2010. The Fed is on track to buy nearly $2 trillion dollars of mortgage-backed securities, US Treasuries and agency debt. In other words, the Fed is printing money and pumping it into the housing market to keep the market from collapsing. This keeps interest rates low, but it also weakens the dollar. When the program ends, long-term interest rates will rise and the dollar will strengthen.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
U.S. Dollar Attacked by Central Bank Lilliputians Profting From the Carry Trade / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Jim_Willie_CB
The US Federal Reserve continues to talk about their urgent Exit Strategy. My theory is they will be doing mostly talking and almost no doing. The nations that talk the least will be hiking interest rates the most, like Australia. The United States might be dead last in hiking interest rates. The credibility of the USFed will in the process continue to be harmed much more than already, which is rock bottom. The Dollar Carry Trade and the lost Petro-Dollar advantage will work to destroy the USDollar as the global reserve currency. The USFed will have to resort to unusual means to keep the world ‘interested’ and ‘involved’ in the USDollar at all. When they lose interest and involvement, the US$ will descend into the Third World. The USDollar will then be forced to find its true value, based on its own merit.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The U.S. Dollar Will Not Crash / Politics / US Dollar
By: Mike_Whitney
The dollar is not going to crash. There may be grumblings in foreign capitals and "secret meetings" between finance ministers but, for now, the dollar appears to be safe.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Russia and Iran Officially Talking about Dumping the U.S. Dollar For Crude Oil and Gas Trade / Politics / US Dollar
By: Washingtons_Blog
After the Independent reported that Middle Eastern oil producers, plus China, Japan and France have all agreed to start trading oil using a basket of currencies - instead of the dollar - starting in 9 years, spokesmen for those governments denied it.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Zero Discount Value of Gold and Dethroning the U.S. Dollar / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Michael_S_Rozeff
A truly major change in the global monetary system is beginning to materialize. The dollar is starting to be dethroned. Foreign governments and central banks are going to do the dethroning.
I have no prediction as to how slowly or quickly this process will take. The major dethroners, the Chinese, are on record as favoring a slow process. The transition is already occurring, however. Now that attitudes have shifted among the dethroners, they are likely to keep at it.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
On the U.S. Dollar, Europe Sings a Classic Meatloaf Hit, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Mike_Shedlock
Seriously, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet cannot possibly be serious when he says Europe Takes U.S. Strong-Dollar Policy Seriously.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Saving the U.S. Dollar and Bearish Gold Volume / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Ronald_Rosen
It has been said that not even the U. S. Marine Corps can save the dollar. However, the way things appear, and according to the Delta Long Term turning points, the Marines may succeed in a delaying action for about twelve months. Desperate times require desperate means. The U. S. Dollar, starting about now, may actually rally right up to the mid term elections in November 2010. Perhaps we should include American politics as one of our market timing tools.