{"id":138292,"date":"2018-12-03T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=138292"},"modified":"2018-12-03T08:18:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:18:25","slug":"dollar-strengthens-amid-global-growth-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2018\/12\/dollar-strengthens-amid-global-growth-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar strengthens amid global growth uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-1423643218\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">December 3, 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<div class=\"newstext\">\n<p><em> US dollar net long bets <\/em> rose further last week to $29.53 billion from $28.48 billion against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/en\/about-forex\/major-currency-pairs\">major currencies<\/a> , according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) covering data up to November 27 and released on Friday November 30. The dollar continued strengthening against the backdrop of elevated risks to global growth prospects as US-China trade dispute remained unresolved with no signs of change in Washington\u2019s and Beijings stances.<\/p>\n<div class=\"div_anotation\">\n<h2>CFTC Sentiment vs Exchange Rate<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>November 27 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>positive<\/td>\n<td>positive<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-649<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-177<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>AUD<\/b><\/td>\n<td>positive<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-3892<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">369<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>EUR<\/b><\/td>\n<td>positive<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-7773<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-1063<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>GBP<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-3116<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">357<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>CHF<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-2638<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-172<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>JPY<\/b><\/td>\n<td>positive<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-11465<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-367<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Total<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-29533<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifccd.net\/uploads\/image\/CFTC_O_NetLongShort_3December2018.jpg\" alt=\"commitment of traders net long short\" \/><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifccd.net\/uploads\/image\/CFTC_O_WeeklyChange_3December2018.jpg\" alt=\"commitment of traders weekly change\" \/><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifccd.net\/uploads\/image\/CFTC_O_LongShortRatio_3December2018.jpg\" alt=\"market sentiment ratio long short positions\" \/><\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"st_wraper\">\n<div class=\"market_banner_main\">\n<div class=\"market_banner_text\">\n<div class=\"mar_top\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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 rose further last week to $29.53 billion from $28.48 billion against the major currencies , according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) covering data up to November 27 and released on Friday November 30. The dollar continued strengthening against the backdrop of elevated risks [&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-138292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138292","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=138292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138297,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138292\/revisions\/138297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}