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Markets sold dollar positions after weaker-than-expected U.S. core inflation and China's easing of Covid restrictions. ING argues a sustained dollar downtrend is premature because the Fed pivot is not yet assured.
Fed funds futures now price only 50bp in December and a 4.95% peak rate in 2023.
Continued dollar weakness would lower the cost of dollar-priced feed imports, but uncertainty about the Fed path makes a lasting decline less certain.
think.ing.comFrancesco Pesole, Frantisek Taborsky, Chris TurnerNov 11, 2022After 1,637 past bearish macro events, DXY moved a median -0.2% over 5 sessions (39% higher; middle half -0.6% to +0.3%), and -0.2% over 20.
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.
Dollar positions were sold on weak core inflation and China easing, with futures pricing a smaller Fed hike.
