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When the euro shorts take off

By Jeremy Gaunt
January 3, 2012
Commodity Futures Trading Commission | currencies | dollar | euro | euro zone | investors | markets | shorting

Currency speculators boosted bets against the euro to a record high in the latest week of data (to end December 27) and built up the biggest long dollar position since mid-2010, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Here — courtesy of Reuters’ graphics whiz Scott Barber, is what happens to the euro when shorts build up:



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Jan 4, 2012
1:14 am UTC

The question is how many more weeks to go before a serious correction in equities?

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