The recent dollar gyrations seem tightly linked to US rates. The FOMC meeting and October jobs report saw the two-year Treasury yield drop 17 bp and the dollar was taken broadly lower. Indeed, against several currency pairs, it approached three standard deviations below its 20-day moving average. What seemed like a mild adjustment to the over-extended technical development turned into a rout after a weak reception to the US 30-year bond auction to finish the quarterly refunding and comments for Fed Chair Powell that did not seem to go beyond his remarks at the post-FOMC press conference, when many insisted he was ... (full story)