with this swap, it looks like usdeur and usdgbp both weakened. Currency pairs - one side gets weak, other strong - USD will probably get strong. Not good for risk assets.
I will also suggest that dxy is funny instrument - member states can cut interest rates and dxy goes up, and member states can raise interest rates and dxy goes down - totally not intuitive.
CB's can play all kinds of games with currencies.
Many times its just a crap shoot
Well, looks like faceripper time - fed is cutting interest rates on the 30y
either that or they are loading guns for a different swap
This mornings swap was to synch all DXY member states to CA30 bonds (canadian) (1) now all currencies move as canadian currency.
Canada is #1 exporter of oil to USA
Usually oil++ means canadian dollar++ - so now everyone moves like canadian dollar
DXY = USDCAD now.
So now the game will be for japan to buy more canadian bonds, weakening usdcad even more.
As USDCAD weakens, cause dxy states linked, DXY would weaken, stonks would moon.
Lets see...
Zooomed in so its easier to see #2 is ca30y bond yield
oil producers may own physical, but no one is as masterful at currency games than dxy states.
no.
one.
Im sure a 200bp move in oil (down) is completely normal....
with dxy currencies now synched to cad, fed has to LOWER rates else oil will crash.
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If you go to the local market the sparkly has a known value.
Say the local value is 100 schmeckels.
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But one day you decide to travel to country Zenoblob.
In Zenoblob that sparkly is HIGHLY desired.
You can break of just a tiny bit of the sparkly and with it you can exchange that tiny bit for the best restaurants, the best transportation, the best hotels and still have a lot of sparkly left over.
You go home thinking you are a genius so you start looking for more sparkly.
You find another chunk of sparkly and this year you try the same thing again.
This is gold.
It is inverted.
The lower the line goes the higher the price of gold in USD.
When it takes more USD to buy gold?
Thats a measure of inflation.
2nd chart zoomed out.
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Here is USDJPY (the jPanesa) and US long bond yields.
Notice the striking correlations
On this chart - when the blue line goes up, bond yields go down. When the blue line goes down, bond yields go up.
The higher the blue line goes on this chart? The lower the bond yield. Lower bond yield = new car loans go down, credit card interest rates go down, etc.
Blue line going up = FRENCH TICKER
Its *STIMULATIVE*
Stonk loves when blue line go up.
because jPanesa own so much US debt, they can move bonds with ease. ESP so because the jAnet isnt selling as much long bond - this makes jPans job easier.
They do all of this to control currency - in green.
When the green line goes up the USD gets weaker.
A weaker USD means US exports get cheaper.
Your groceries get more expensi.
Your overseas vacation gets more expensi.
Anything US imports gets more expensi.