The Canadian dollar is performing very strongly indeed. There’s a guy quoted on Bloomberg with his finger on the pulse of the USD/CAD, really worth paying attention to:
“After five days of gains in risk assets the dam has finally broken in dollar/CAD,” said Adam Button, a currency analyst at forexlive.com, by phone from Montreal. “The pair had been resistant against better news in the stock market and the European bond market for a number of days, but now with the rallies in oil and gold today the Canadian dollar can no longer overlook the obvious good news in risk assets.”
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