Market Conditions Affecting Exchange Rates
We continue our daily look at factors affecting currencies allowing some insight into market conditions affecting exchange rates
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The pound fell yesterday against the dollar and dropped to a seven week low against the euro. Investors decided to ignore ratings agency Moodys decision to downgrade Ireland and Hungarys financial difficulties opting to cut their short euro positions against a basket of currencies most noticeably sterling.
A large euro buy order early in the session helped to suppress any negative feeling towards the euro as another Eurozone member state received a reduced credit rating to AA2 citing a significant loss of financial strength.
The euro has been performing well recently and optimism that the release of European bank stress-test results this week on the 23rd July will show strength in the regions banking sector, easing concern that the debt crisis will worsen.
European regulators are examining the strength of 91 banks to determine whether they can survive potential losses on sovereign-debt holdings. Spanish officials including Finance Minister Elena Salgado last week said they are confident about the results of the stress tests on Spanish banks.
Without any significant data releases in the UK until tomorrows Bank of Englands minutes and Fridays 2nd quarter GDP figures, all the attention was focussed on euro movements. Despite hawkish comments over the weekend from Bank of Englands policymaker Andrew Sentance and merger talks between Frances GDF Suez and Britains International Power, the pound lost 1% during Mondays session falling as low as 1.1727 in the afternoon.
Against the dollar, the pound fell 0.4% to $1.5226, well below a high of $1.5351 reached early in the session.
The euro fell from the highs of $1.30 against the US dollar but remained within striking distance well in the late $1.29s throughout the session. The 9.5% gain to $1.3008 from a four-year low on June 7 reduced speculation the regions debt crisis would break up the single currency. At the same time, the head of Spains Exporters Club says the stronger euro will make it harder to counter a paralyzed domestic market.
Where has this recent euro rally come from?
Bets on a drop in the euro climbed to an all-time high earlier this year as so-called peripheral nations from Greece to Spain struggled to sell debt to trim their deficits. The reversal of this sentiment is where the rally stems from.
Bond yields in the peripheral nations began to retreat after the EU and the IMF announced an aid package worth almost $1 trillion on May 10, easing concern governments in the region would default.
Rising demand at bond auctions by Greece, Spain and Portugal in recent weeks and decreasing bets by hedge funds on a drop in the euro suggest that the regions sovereign debt crisis wont lead to a breakup of the shared currency.
Greece sold 1.6bn of 26-week Treasury bills July 13, the government will pay less than the 5% charged by the EU for its bailout funds. Spain sold 3bn of 15-year bonds on July 15, attracting bids for 2.57 times the amount offered, up from 1.79 times in April. A day earlier, Portugal sold more 2012 and 2019 securities than it had indicated on July 8.
The difference in the number of bets by hedge funds and other large speculators on a decline in the euro compared with wagers on a gain, known as net shorts, fell to 27,050 on July 13 from a record 113,890 on May 11, data from the Washington-based Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed.
by: adieaston
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