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Market goes into reverse ahead of year-end
–    Buys what
was sold before, sells what was bought
–    USD
declines vs all G10 currencies and most EM currencies as well (except TRY)
–    Global
interest rates fall further as Spanish deflation intensifies; Eurozone Dec CPI
expected to show the region has fallen into deflation
•    
AUD rises along with iron ore
–    Iron ore
up for last four days on hope for Chinese stimulus
–    I think
they will shut down loss-making steel companies, while iron ore production is
set to rise = price may fall further in 2015, dragging AUD down, in my view
•    
Drop in rates, USD supports gold
–    Price
yesterday was almost exactly where it was a year ago; could be worse
•    
US rig count falls, heralding fall in oil
production in coming years
–    Correlation
between number of rigs and amount of output is uncertain
–    Oil for
delivery way out in future is rising, but that doesn’t affect near-term market
•    
Today:
–    US: Initial
jobless claims 4-week average expected to move lower, pending home sales
expected to rise = USD-positive