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Story: Dollar Weakens as Bond Market Stabilizes, Easing Investor Fears

By Julie Binoche

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Euro and Yen Catch a Bid. The euro and yen both picked up modest gains as the dollar weakened.

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What Traders Are Watching Now. Attention has shifted to what comes next from central banks and financial authorities.

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Broader Market Mood. Investor sentiment shifted alongside the currency moves.

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The dollar slid Monday. Bond market fears that had rattled investors for days started to ease, and traders didn't need much more reason than that to rotate out of the greenback.

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Authorities stepped in with a round of measures aimed at providing liquidity and steadying yields that had been climbing fast enough to spook pretty much everyone watching fixed…

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The euro and yen both picked up modest gains as the dollar weakened. Emerging market currencies got a lift too — lower U.S.

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The relationship between U.S. yields and global currency strength is well-worn territory for forex traders.

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Emerging market currencies had been under particular pressure during the recent volatility. Dollar strength and rising yields are a rough combination for countries carrying…

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Attention has shifted to what comes next from central banks and financial authorities. The immediate crisis looks contained, but speculation about longer-term policy moves is…

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See also: Euro Surges to 3-Month High at $1.132 as Yen Struggles Near 160

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Traders are recalibrating. Portfolios are being reassessed. The yield dynamics that drove so much of the recent volatility haven't disappeared — they've just quieted down for the…

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The bond market and the currency market are tightly linked, and that linkage has been on full display. When yields climbed, the dollar climbed with them.

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Currency analysts didn't offer a clean forecast. The situation is still fluid, and most serious observers seem reluctant to call a trend from a single session's movement.

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Investor sentiment shifted alongside the currency moves. The subsiding panic created a cautiously optimistic mood — not euphoric, but less tense than last week.

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