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The U.S. Dollar Index fell to a 10-Month low overnight amid speculation the Federal Reserve will take additional steps to prevent the faltering U.S. recovery from completely derailing.

December Treasury Bonds were trading firmer on Tuesday even before the FOMC hinted that the Fed was gearing up for another round of quantitative easing.

Early in the trading session T-Bonds pierced a downtrending Gann angle at 131’27, indicating a sign of strength and the potential for a retracement back to 132’12 to 133’04.

The easing of concerns regarding Irish sovereign debt helped the December E-mini S&P 500 overcome the selling pressure that triggered a closing price reversal top on Friday, triggering a resumption of the breakout to the upside.

An emergency easing by the Bank of Japan may have backfired overnight as the Yen erased its early losses against the major currencies. The BoJ made the move in the hopes it would weaken the Japanese Yen, but instead it’s business as usual this morning with the Yen sharply higher versus the U.S. Dollar.

U.S. equity markets rallied sharply higher on Thursday as tensions eased in the Euro Zone prompting investors to turn up demand for higher risk assets. The strong surge in the June E-mini S&P 500 negated Wednesday’s hard sell-off, triggering a rally through the minor retracement zone at 1074.50 to 1082.25.

The EUR USD is trading higher this morning, but still struggling with a Fibonacci retracement level at 1.2345. Regaining this price will be the key to igniting a surge to the upside.

An easing of investor risk sentiment is helping to support equity price overnight. Early in the trading session, stock markets followed through to the upside following Friday’s strong finish and talk of a possible resolution of the fiscal problems plaguing the Euro Region.

Easing Credit Woes Pressure Dollar

Posted by Forexhound on December 14th, 2009

The U.S. Dollar finished lower today against a basket of trade weighted currencies. The Greenback was under pressure all day and never quite recovered following an overnight announcement that Dubai received $10 billion in financing from Abu Dhabi to pay part of the debt held by the state-owned Dubai World.

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