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COT: Gold and Crude longs maintained amid strong underlying support
In the forex market, broad dollar strength continued ahead of the Easter break, most notably against CHF (-1.9%), GBP (-1.2%), and NZD (-0.8%). Overall, it drove a second week of aggressive dollar buying, lifting the gross long versus eight IMM currency futures to an October 2022 high at USD 13.8 billion. The EUR net long slumped by 35% to a September 2022 low at 31k contracts, the CHF net short reached a December 2019 high at -22k, while the JPY short expanded to -129k, not far from the 2017 record high at -136k. Except the greenback, the only other currency enjoying demand was the MXN which, due to its high level ... (full story)