Market Briefing: Currencies

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1 Market Briefing: Currencies December 6, 217 Dr. Edward Yardeni Mali Quintana Please visit our sites at www. blog. thinking outside the box

2 Table Of Contents Table Of Contents Trade-Weighted Dollar 1 Euro & Pound 2 Swiss Franc & Krona 3 Yen & Won 4 Canadian & Australian Dollars 5 Real & Peso 6 Rupee & Rupiah 7 Ringitt & Yuan 8 Baht & Pesos 9 Lira & Ruble 1 Peso 11 Rand & Hryvnia 12 Misc. Exchange Rates Large Speculators in Currencies 15 December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

3 Trade-Weighted Dollar Figure 1. JP MORGAN TRADE-WEIGHTED DOLLAR INDEX* (2=1, daily) Trade-Weighted Dollar (117.36) * Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, Uruguay, US, Venezuela, Vietnam, & Euro Area. Source: JP Morgan Figure 2. FED S TRADE-WEIGHTED DOLLAR INDEXES (daily) Major* (3/73=1) Broad** (1/97=1) /1 12/ * Major index is a weighted average of the foreign exchange rates of the US dollar against the Euro Area, Australia, Canada, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, ** Broad index is a weighted average of the foreign exchange rates of the US dollar against the Euro Area, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, and Venezuela. Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Page 1 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

4 1.75 Figure 3. EUROZONE: US$/EURO Euro & Pound 1.75 D NIRP QE QEE Euro (1.18) D = ECB President Mario Draghi pledged to do "whatever it takes" to defend the euro (7/26/12). NIRP = negative interest-rate policy (6/5/214). QE (1/22/15). QEE = expansion and extension of QE (3/1/16, corporate bond purchases started 6/1/16). Figure 4. UK: US$/POUND Pound (4) Page 2 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

5 Figure 5. SWITZERLAND: SWISS FRANC/$ Swiss Franc & Krona Swiss Franc (.99) Figure 6. SWEDEN: KRONA/$ Krona (8.44) 1 1 Page 3 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

6 Yen & Won 6 8 Figure 7. JAPAN: YEN/US$ Z Yen (112.29) A QQE QQEE NIRP 6 8 YC Note: Z = Zero Interest Rate Policy. A = Markets start to anticipate Abenomics. QQE is Quantitative and Qualitative Easing. QQEE is the expanded and extended version of QQE. NIRP = Negative interest rate policy. YC = Yield curve targeting. Figure 8. SOUTH KOREA: WON/US$ Won (193.7) Page 4 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

7 .9 Figure 9. CANADA: C$/US$ Canadian & Australian Dollars Canadian Dollar (8) Figure 1. AUSTRALIA: A$/US$ 1 Australian Dollar (2) Page 5 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

8 Figure 11. BRAZIL: REAL/US$ Real (3.24) Real & Peso Figure 12. MEXICO: EXCHANGE RATE (dollars per peso).2.15 Peso (.5) Page 6 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

9 Rupee & Rupiah 25 Figure 13. INDIA: RUPEE/$ Rupee (64.52) Figure 14. INDONESIA: RUPIA/$ Rupia (13539.) Page 7 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

10 Figure 15. MALAYSIA: RINGGIT/$ Ringitt & Yuan Ringgit (4.8) Figure 16. CHINA: YUAN/US$ Yuan (6.61) Page 8 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

11 15 2 Figure 17. THAILAND: BAHT/$ Baht & Pesos Baht (32.63) Figure 18. PHILIPPINES: PESOS/$ Pesos (5.71) Page 9 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

12 -.5. Figure 19. TURKEY: LIRA/$ Lira & Ruble Lira (36) Figure 2. RUSSIA: RUBLE/$ Ruble (59.14) Page 1 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

13 Figure 21. ARGENTINA: PESO/$ Peso Peso (17.27) Figure 22. CHILE: PESO/$) Peso (654.21) Page 11 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

14 . Figure 23. SOUTH AFRICA: RAND/$ Rand & Hryvnia Rand (13.53) Figure 24. UKRAINE: HRYVNIA/$ Hryvnia (271.92) / Page 12 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

15 Figure 25. JAPAN: US$/1YEN (daily) Misc. Exchange Rates A QQE QQEE NIRP 1.1 Yen (9) YC Note: A = Markets start to anticipate Abenomics. QQE is Quantitative and Qualitative Easing. QQEE is the expanded and extended version of QQE. NIRP = negative interest rates. YC = Yield curve targeting. Figure 26. FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES Canada (C$/US$) () Australia (A$/US$) () Page 13 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

16 1 Figure 27. SWITZERLAND: SWISS FRANC/EURO Misc. Exchange Rates Page 14 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

17 Figure 28. US DOLLAR INDEX (US dollar index x $1,) 11/ EURO (contracts of 125, Euros) Large Speculators in Currencies YEN 11/ CANADIAN DOLLAR (contracts of 1, Canadian Dollars) /28 11/ POUND STERLING (contracts of 62,5 Pound Sterling) AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR (contracts of 1, Australian Dollars) /28 11/ Source: Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Page 15 / December 6, 217 / Currencies www.

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