USD well and truly broke the sequence of six consecutive days of losses. The dollar rebounded sharply after the inflation data, having traded around flat before the numbers. A fourth consecutive week of initial weekly jobless claims around 200k also suggested tightness in the labour market continues. Yields rose though more Fed commentary stuck to the recent script. That being that rising long-term rates are doing “some of the work” for the Fed amid tighter financial conditions. The DXY is firmly back in the long-term ascending channel. EUR had poked out of its descending channel over the last two days, but sellers ... (full story)