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USD OVERVIEW |
Tuesday, April 16, 2004 9:03 GMT Interim Report. By FxMAX. http://www.fxmax.com |
US Dollar Collapse a Real Possibility |
As a stubborn USD bull in the near term of late, it is starting to look like time may be running out on that view. Always a USD/YEN bear, if the EUR/USD can close on its highs in NY today/tomorrow, it may be the start of a major broad based and potentially rapid US dollar decline. China or Japan may in fact be shifting the weighting of their currency portfolio/s away from the US and toward the Euro at the moment. What has this writer intrigued is the significant spikes seen away from the EUR 1.2050 level on several occasions. Of course there are a myriad of buyers near that level, but one wonders if one “significant” buyer is not at work here. There has been strong buying near 1.2050 in early March, late March, and now over the last week again. The nature of the price action suggests some in the know may be buying alongside the large party. Sterling is remaining quite firm as is the AUD. Could there be another medium term wave of high yielding currencies doing well left to come? Certainly any resumption of EUR strength against the USD is going to focus the market psychology spotlight upon the risk of a fresh broad based Dollar decline. The Iraq and terrorist issues remain on the front page. It must be said that developments on the ground in Iraq over the last two weeks or more do not encourage a bullish US psychology in the rest of the world. Such developments do effect market dynamics if they continue to build. It could be said the psychological ground toward the US dollar has been softened by these developments. Should there be, and most hopefully not, a significant terrorist event in the US in coming weeks, coming as it would on the back of a perceived to be failing Iraq policy, a change of administration in the US would become highly probable. The Bush administration would be left with a still free terrorist leadership, a struggle to maintain civil order in Iraq, and a still vulnerable US homeland. In such circumstances the current policies would come to be seen as blatantly inappropriate and ineffective. This is a dark picture being painted here, and not one we favour. Yet it is the role of a strategist to look for the soft side of a market, and how that soft side may be fundamentally punctured. We simply cannot see how the Bush administration could survive such a backdrop, regardless of how well the economy was doing. We have long offered the view that the Bush administration is vulnerable at the forthcoming election, and most importantly that this is not something the market is pricing. There is no administration change “risk” currently priced into the US dollar, let alone actual change of administration. This probably has nothing to do with the large and record contributions made by some Wall Street investment banks to the Bush campaign? When you overlay the potential for a late and rapid pricing in of such risk to the USD, on top of the current account, trade, and fiscal deficits story, then you have significant potential energy to the downside for the US dollar. Most certainly fresh lows beyond EUR 1.30 are likely for the US dollar. The only question really is whether the USD can rally further before reversing finally to the downside in a big way again? We have been of the view that this last USD rally would eventuate. The picture is less clear now. Suggest the USD needs to break higher through the strong EUR level at 1.2050 within the next 24-48 hours, or the bullish USD game will be over. Amidst a broad based Dollar decline the USD/YEN may hesitate for a moment, but it will in the end fall like a rock. We continue to favour USD/YEN 96.50, risk 80. The two very clear and significant levels for the USD are at EUR 1.2050, and YEN 105. This is a key week likely to determine the outlook for the USD for perhaps several months to come. |
By Clifford Bennett FxMAX. http://www.fxmax.com email: cbfxmax@msn.com |