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USD Strength Persists as US10YY Recovers Off Multi-Month Lows

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  • Greenback strength extending in recent trade, with fresh lows printed across EUR/USD, AUD/USD, while USD/CNH, USD/CAD hit new session highs.
  • Move supported by 10y yields recovering off this morning's multi-month lows, with the 10YY now back above 1.44%.- Very light volumes so far in FX futs, with EUR/USD only seeing 150 contracts or so change hands on the latest downtick (very small relative to the 4.1k that traded in the 60 seconds following US CPI yday).
  • BBDXY yet to top yesterday's highs, although continued weakness in EUR/USD at these levels is likely to continue to push both BBDXY and DXY higher.
  • Only notable release of the day comes with UMich Sentiment at 1500BST/1000ET.

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