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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the Fed should be wary of moving too gradually in raising rates, pushing US bond yields higher and the Canadian dollar lower. The Canadian-US two-year yield spread, which peaked on Sept.
8, has narrowed since then, weighing on the loonie.
Higher US yields and a firmer dollar tend to weaken commodity prices priced in dollars and make US grain and meal relatively cheaper for foreign buyers, a mild bearish factor for feed prices.
theglobeandmail.comScott BarlowSep 27, 2017After 2,356 past bullish macro events, US Dollar (Broad) moved a median +0.2% over 5 sessions (60% higher; middle half -0.3% to +0.7%), and +0.4% over 20.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
