20Apr3:24 pmEST
King Dollar Down, But Not Defeated
Those declaring the end of the greenback may still be a bit too early, despite the ferocious rally in commodity stocks and most things "inflationary," of late.
The UUP, ETF for the U.S. Dollar versus a basket of developed economies' currencies, did indeed lose fifteen-month support (lower light blue line on daily chart, below) over the last month or so.
This weakness could have easily catapulted those aforementioned miners and energy stocks to multi-month, muti-quarter, even multi-year highs in some cases.
But what if the Dollar breakdown was a bit too obvious? Even if the Dollar is in the early phases of collapsing, for argument's sake, there may be a need to keep some greenback shorts honest (and newfound miner momentum longs honest, too, who are chasing up here) with a bit of a bounce-back.
Note the UUP strength today off the early-April lows.
A multi-day bounce in the Dollar now may do wonders to reset some wildly extended steel and silver miner charts, for example.
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