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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Genomics is the study of DNA, and the RELATIONSHIPS (pay attn to that) of those genes and how they interact with each other.
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DNA is like the instruction manual for building that castle. It tells your body how to grow and what it should look like. It's like a super long, twisty ladder inside tiny parts of you called cells.
Genes are like the special LEGO bricks in the instruction manual. Each gene has instructions for a specific part of you, like your eye color or how tall you might grow.
In a currency war, you win by out "devaluing" your currency vs your trading partner.
You do this to gain market advantage - your products become CHEAPER than your competitor, killing your competitors industry.
The white line is china - when the white line goes up (9 of them) china devalued.
Notice that giant plunge near #4?
Notice the yellow line - thats global liquidity - and its inverted - so you can clearly see central bank interventions and its impact on the chinese currency.
G7 loaded up on debt, and out china'ed china....
Lately they stopped - because inflation now is raging.
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Remember - currencies are a RATIO.
So when chinas currency goes up on this chart - it gets WEAKER relative to USD.
Which means the USD gets STRONGER.
Stronger USD = bad for US exports, particularly to china.
It means China wins global trade vs US because everything is so cheap.
Tariffs equalize trade and offset this nonsense.
Tariffs make this cheap chinese export due to currency games less competitive.
US cannot control what china does, but it can control what it imports from china.