Currency Hedges As noted by the strong appreciation of the Bloomberg
Dollar Spot Index, up 6.7 % during the third quarter, the U.S. dollar has strengthened versus most global currencies.
At the time of writing,
the Dollar Spot Index was down 0.03 % to $ 91.532, with today's stats and noise from the Oval Office the key drivers through the day, the U.S president now turning his attention to the Iran nuclear agreement.
The yield on 10 - year U.S. Treasury notes slipped slightly to 2.96 per cent following the release of the statement, while the S&P 500 Index of U.S. stocks climbed to its highest level of the day and the Bloomberg
Dollar Spot Index fell.
The Dollar Spot Index was flat at 91.54 at the time of writing, 10 - year Treasury yields sitting at 2.96 % ahead of today's open and the release of today's figures that could see yields bounce back to 3 % this afternoon.
Rising Treasury yields are driving the Bloomberg
Dollar Spot Index to the highest since February, leading to the worst three - day selloff in five years for developing - world currencies, which caused central banks to intervene.
In the end, the Bloomberg
Dollar Spot Index dropped 8.5 percent in 2017 as the greenback slid among all but one of its 16 major peers.
Not exact matches
The Bank of Canada commodity price
index (BCPI) is a chain Fisher price
index of the
spot or transaction prices in U.S.
dollars of 26 commodities produced in Canada and sold in world markets.
Specifically, they relate
spot West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil price to: the U.S.
dollar exchange rate versus a basket of developed market currencies; Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) return; U.S. short - term interest rate; the S&P 500 options - implied volatility
index (VIX); and, open interest in the NYMEX crude oil futures (as an indication of financialization of the oil market).
To investigate, we relate changes in the
dollar - euro exchange rate to returns for U.S. stock
indexes and
spot gold.
One of the most reliable charts to monitor when trading gold ETFs,
spot gold futures, or even physical gold coins, is the US
Dollar Index ETF ($ UUP).
Using global industrial production growth as specified, annual total returns for 30 country, two regional and world stock
indexes, currency
spot and one - year forward exchange rates relative to the U.S.
dollar,
spot prices on 19 commodities, total annual returns for a global government bond
index and a U.S. corporate bond
index, and country inflation rates as available during 1970 through 2013, they find that: Keep Reading
To investigate, we relate the return series of three exchange - traded funds: (1) the futures - based PowerShares DB US
Dollar Index Bullish (UUP); (2) the
spot - based SPDR Gold Shares (GLD); and, (3) the
spot - based United States Oil (USO).
As for the types of instruments available for trading, FXCM's coverage of the markets included
spot forex, precious metals, stock
indices, the
dollar index and international stocks.