Wednesday, August 5, 2009

US Dollar Index Showing All Sorts of Weakness

The U.S. dollar taketh...and the U.S. dollar giveth away. That's one way of looking at the flurry of activity in markets right now. The Aussie dollar is at a ten-month high. Oil is up 75% since January, with crude trading at $74/barrel. Copper is at a ten-month high. The S&P 500 has cracked 1,000 again.

Meanwhile, the U.S. dollar index is showing all sorts of weakness. The chart below tells you a couple of things. First, you can see that when the short-term moving averages cross the longer-term moving averages, it usually signals a move. We're not making this up, by the way. We asked technician Gabriel Andre why the crossing of the 50-day MA over the 200-day MA was significant. His answer below. (more)

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