Dollar weakened as Federal Reserve stood pat

May 13, 2019

By IFCMarkets

US dollar net long bets declined to $38.03 billion from $38.87 billion against the major currencies during the one week period, according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) covering data up to May 7 and released on Friday May 10. The dollar weakened slightly as Federal Reserve held federal funds rate in a 2.25%-2.50% range while the Institute for Supply Management services index for April came in weaker than expected.

 

CFTC Sentiment vs Exchange Rate

April 30 2019BiasEx RateTrendPosition $ mlnWeekly Change
CADbearishpositive-342367
AUDbearishnegative-4000159
EURbearishpositive-14795-8
GBPbearishnegative-562-182
CHFbearishpositive-485522
JPYbearishpositive-10399773
Total-38033

 

commitment of traders net long short
commitment of traders weekly change
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