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Swiss Franc Strategies – 2010.08.23

Swiss Franc Strategies – 2010.08.23

A more suitable choice to benefit from an extended period of Dollar weakness would be the September Swiss. Unlike Japan, Switzerland's economy has been comparatively strong over the past year with better conditions and a better outlook than many of its European neighbors.

Natural Gas – 2010.08.23

Natural Gas – 2010.08.23

We believe there will be one more push down in natural gas prices to come, and that should take prices down to new lows for the year.

Commodity Outlook – 2010.08.23

Commodity Outlook – 2010.08.23

There are certainly plenty of factors that could spark sharply higher commodity prices, including weather, but we see many commodities in general as being too overbought given their supply outlooks.

Sugar Market Commentary – 2010.08.26

26 August 2010

The reversal from six month highs may be seen as a negative technical development and some rains in Russia and talk of easing congestion in Brazil may be factor to encourage speculators to liquidate part of their large net long position.

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Cocoa Market Commentary – 2010.08.26

26 August 2010

The sharp losses of the past few weeks have left futures oversold technically and a turn back down in the US dollar overnight may help spark a corrective bounce.

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Coffee Market Commentary – 2010.08.26

26 August 2010

The market saw a significant long liquidation break from Monday's highs and fell as much as 12.3% in just three trading sessions. This leaves the market in an oversold technical condition but the follow-through selling certainty confirms that a major top is in place.

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Cotton Market Commentary – 2010.08.26

26 August 2010

The market may key off export sales and the dollar into the end of the week.

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Interest Rate Market Commentary 2010.08.25

25 August 2010

The Treasury markets reached another peak yesterday in the wake of a one/two punch of much weaker than expected US existing home sales figures and noted weakness in US equities.

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Currency Market Commentary – 2010.08.25

25 August 2010

The Dollar may hold this current safe haven support today, but any sort of rebound in global equities leaves the market vulnerable to a pullback.

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Stock Index Market Commentary – 2010.08.25

25 August 2010

The market can bounce but we seriously doubt the bull camp can engineer anything beyond a temporary technical balancing on the upside.

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Hog Market Commentary – 2010.08.24

24 August 2010

With a new high in pork cut-out, new sellers might be tough to find and short traders are vulnerable to covering.

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Cattle Market Commentary – 2010.08.24

24 August 2010

Any sign of a near-term top and/or significant weakness in the financial markets could spark a correction.

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Metals Market Commentary – 2010.08.20

20 August 2010

With the slowing mentality in place this morning, the gold market still seems to be underpinned by the fear of further slowing but there doesn't appear to be much in the way of fresh economic news from the overnight headlines.

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