US Dollar: Rally seen stretched into year-end – TD Securities

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TD Securities’ TD Macro Research Insight argues the US Dollar rally is stretched against major currencies and is unlikely to break to new highs in current Fed hiking cycle. Month-end equity rebalancing flows, weaker-than-consensus US payrolls, and broadly short G10 FX positioning versus USD support a bearish Dollar regime, with risks from a potential US diesel export ban and geopolitical escalation.

TD sees USD in bearish regime

"Headlines of potential US diesel exports ban and surprisingly strong US PMI data prolonged the post-FOMC USD rally last week."

"Comparing FX-adjusted global equity index returns, our month-end rebalancing framework sees a 1.0-1.5 z-score rebalancing flow out of the USD and into EUR, GBP, and CAD."

"Our US payrolls forecast for September is weaker-than-consensus both on UE rate and headline jobs growth."

"Our trend-following framework suggests the USD rally has become stretched vs EUR, GBP, CAD, SEK and MXN."

"We do not see the USD breaking out to a new high in the current Fed rate hiking cycle unless the Fed can out-hawk global central banks like in 2022, or RoW growth outlook starts to falter ahead of the US."

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