A covered bond auction of Portugal could help the single currency today to retrace some of its recent loses especially as it could find support at 1.297 yesterday as expected it was not easy to get down further breaking this support without bouncing. The single currency is now trading above 1.31 versus the greenback after the pressure on it has eased and the European equities markets have been cheered with this covered auction which has been on a relatively high yielding than before increasing the risk appetite of the investors which sold back the greenback and the Japanese yen carrying new risky trades as The market focusing has been turned to Portugal and Spain and the expected European requests for them for having a part of the available low cost bailing out package for funding their accumulated deficit which is weighing negatively on their creditability...
- Published: 01 December 2010
- Written by Editor