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What’s Behind This EUR Resilience? – Morgan Stanley

EUR/USD is holding its high ground despite doubts about a Greek deal, strong US retail sales and not so impressive  German growth.

What’s behind the  resilience? The team at Morgan Stanley explains:

Here is their view, courtesy of eFXnews:

The direction of global risk appetite remains crucial for the relative performance of currencies within the core DM bloc, says Morgan Stanley.

Continued risk appetite weakness should see EUR coming out the strongest, outperforming USD and to a lesser degree JPY, SEK and CHF,” MS argues.

“The reason for this temporary EUR strength is straightforward. EMU’s current account surplus keeps on rising, as corroborated by this week’s French trade surplus reaching €1 billion. Meanwhile, the high foreign hedge ratio on European assets implies that European equity weakness will lead to over-hedged positions and EUR buying,” MS clarifies.

Should risk appetite remain fragile due to the China-induced VAR event, EMU will not see sufficient long-term capital outflows nor the use of EUR funding necessary to weaken the currency, in our view,” MS projects.

EUR and RMBhistorically trade inversely August 2015 Morgan Stanley

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