Not exact matches
However, the Australian dollar remains one of the few currencies in which market participants continue to have long speculative
positions relative to the US dollar (Graph 24); in the case of the Japanese
yen, Canadian dollar and Swiss franc, speculative
positions against the US dollar are short.
Speculative investors mainly added dollar shorts
against the
yen resulting in an increase in net long JPY
positions to 39 percent of open interest.
according to the CFTC COT data and calculations by Reuters which calculates the dollar
positions against the euro, British pound, Japanese
yen, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar and the Swiss franc.
This year saw positive returns from all currency selections other than a short
position in the Japanese
yen, which ended the year up
against higher interest rate currencies.
Carry strategies yielded positive returns from all currency selections other than a short
position in the Japanese
yen, which ended the year up
against higher interest rate currencies.