Investors look to be playing it safe by choosing carry trade strategies in HUF, MXN and INR – ING
|Major FX pairs look to have settled into early-year ranges. Economists at ING analyze FX markets.
If in doubt, seek carry
January and February are typically good months for the Dollar, and our call is for patience rather than jumping on the next leg of the Dollar bar trend just yet. But the overall environment tends to support more range-bound Dollar trading than any aggressive reversal higher in the Dollar just yet.
We doubt US data will move markets today, but as usual, we will be interested in what the NFIB small business survey has to say about activity, employment, and pricing intentions. It is hard to see DXY trading outside of Friday's 101.90 to 103.10 range today – a range that could well define the entire week.
The outperformers this year are the Hungarian Forint, the Mexican Peso, and the Indian Rupee. What do they have in common? They are the highest-yielding currencies in their respective trading blocs. With cross-market volatility remaining fairly subdued it is clear that carry trade strategies will have some enduring appeal. The bigger question may be in which currency to fund them.
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