{"id":135911,"date":"2018-10-22T12:35:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=135911"},"modified":"2018-10-22T09:46:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:46:39","slug":"dollar-bullish-bets-slip-on-lower-than-expected-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2018\/10\/dollar-bullish-bets-slip-on-lower-than-expected-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar bullish bets slip on lower than expected inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-640653863\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">October 22, 2018<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IFCMarkets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>US dollar net long bets\u00a0<\/em>slipped last week to $27.64 billion from $27.79 billion against the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/en\/about-forex\/major-currency-pairs\">major currencies<\/a>\u00a0during the previous week, according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) covering data up to October 16 and released on Friday October 19. The dollar bullish bets edged lower as the 2.4% consumer inflation was lower than expected for September after 2.7% increase in August and the 0.1% rise in retail sales in September was less than expected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"div_anotation\">\n<h2>CFTC Sentiment vs Exchange Rate<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>October 16 2018<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Bias<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Ex RateTrend<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Position $ mln<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Weekly Change<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>CAD<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-852<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>AUD<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-5104<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>EUR<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-4244<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-1925<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>GBP<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-4148<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">820<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>CHF<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-2086<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-472<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>JPY<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-11204<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1546<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Total<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-27639<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifccd.net\/uploads\/image\/CFTC_O_NetLongShort_22October2018.jpg\" alt=\"commitment of traders net long short\" \/><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifccd.net\/uploads\/image\/CFTC_O_WeeklyChange_22October2018.jpg\" alt=\"commitment of traders weekly change\" \/><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifccd.net\/uploads\/image\/CFTC_O_LongShortRatio_22October2018.jpg\" alt=\"market sentiment ratio long short positions\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IFCMarkets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note:<br \/>\nThis overview has an informative and tutorial character and is published for free. All the data, included in the overview, are received from public sources, recognized as more or less reliable. Moreover, there is no guarantee that the indicated information is full and precise. Overviews are not updated. The whole information in each overview, including opinion, indicators, charts and anything else, is provided only for familiarization purposes and is not financial advice or \u0430 recommendation. The whole text and its any part, as well as the charts cannot be considered as an offer to make a deal with any asset. IFC Markets and its employees under any circumstances are not liable for any action taken by someone else during or after reading the overview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By IFCMarkets US dollar net long bets\u00a0slipped last week to $27.64 billion from $27.79 billion against the\u00a0major currencies\u00a0during the previous week, according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) covering data up to October 16 and released on Friday October 19. The dollar bullish bets edged lower as the 2.4% consumer inflation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135920,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135911\/revisions\/135920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}