Let's take a short break from the lira and the yuan for a moment and return to the Canadian dollar ahead of today's Canadian CPI. The best performing major currency since the start of July is the Canadian dollar, while the best performing emerging market currency is the Mexican peso. Their common denominator is NAFTA risk. Despote improved tone of negotiations, major uncertainty remains. What's the potential upside for the Canadian dollar if a deal is done? A 3rd Index short was opened for Premium subscribers yesterday and is already in the green.

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The implied odds of a BOC rate hike September have been steadily climbing and are now at 24%, rising to 74% in October. With a NAFTA deal a hike by then is a certainty and the likelihood of two hikes before year-end would rise above 50% from 28% currently. The kind of shift into a Fed-like pace of hikes would imply a broad tightening of sovereign spreads and USD/CAD would likely fall to 1.25 from 1.31 currently.

There are upside risks as well. We assume the US would continue with protectionistic measures against Europe and Asia. That would leave Canada and Mexico in the envious position of being able to benefit from stronger US growth while sidelining some of the potential competitors for export orders.

A downside CAD risk that the US-China battle escalates to where it generates global risk aversion and that's something that bears close watching but at the moment it looks like there may be an extended window opening for NAFTA outperformance.

ما هي تداعيات الاختلاف بين ارتفاع مؤشر الدولار الأمريكي وانخفاض الدولار مقابل الين؟ (الفيديو الكامل)

من فاتته ندوتي من يوم أمس يمكن مشاهدة التسجيل في هذا الرابط بعد إدخال تفاصيلك. كيفية تداول القطاعات و مؤشرات الخوف، إدارة مخاطر المؤشرات و العملات و تفاصيل البونص الخاص. (التسجيل الكامل)

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ازمة عملة او ديون؟ حديث مع لارا حبيب عن ازمة تركيا (المقابلة الكاملة)

The Turkish lira continued to rebound Wednesday as the 6.00 level gave way but the South African rand led a slide in other emerging market currencies as the US dollar climbed and commodity prices sank. Japanese trade balance and Australian employment are due up next. The Premium trade shorting DAX30 was closed for 300-pt gain at 12120. A trading note was issued, indicating the next course of action.

فيديو المشتركين - كيفية البيع الإستراتيجي

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Poor earnings at Chinese giant Tencent set off a wave of worries about emerging markets even as Turkey's currency was lifted by a timely $15 billion direct investment from ally Qatar.

Argentina's central bank sold more than $1 billion set of a fresh round of jitters about emerging markets. Chinese markets fell 2% and other markets were battered. The trouble led to a flight to the yen and a bruising day for commodities that saw copper down 4%, crude oil down 3.2% and gold down another $20 to $1174. The S&P 500 fell 21 points.

Today's US data releases were robust. EM moves overshadowed some top-tier US economic data. US July retail sales rose 0.5% compared to 0.1% expected. The headline showed surprisingly robust vehicle and parts sales despite a poor month for automakers but that was balanced by some other quirks that placed the control group at expectations. The Empire Fed was strong at 25.6 compared to 20.0 expected in another positive sign of the US but industrial production was a tad soft at +0.1% versus the +0.3% consensus.

The news will continue at a fast pace in the day ahead starting with the 2350 GMT release of Japanese trade balance for July. Exports are forecast up 6.3% y/y and imports up 14.2%, leading to a rare deficit at 41B yen.

The highlight of the Asia-Pacific day comes at 0130 GMT when July Australian unemployment numbers are due. The consensus is for no change to the 5.4% unemployment rate as the economy adds 15.0K jobs.