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Dollar pares some recent gains on news that Abu Dhabi is providing $10b to help Dubai World to meet it's obligations. Dubai will use $4.1b to repay an Islamic bond maturing today for Nakhell PJSC, its real-estate unit. The rest of the money will be used to pay trade creditors, contractors, interest expenses and be the working capital through April 2010. The news came in as a relief for the market and sent stocks higher.
Japanese yen trades higher today after release of better than expected quarterly tankan survey. The large manufacturers index improved from -33 to -24 in Q4 while the non-manufacturing index rose from -24 to -22. Both were above expectation of -26 and -23 respectively. However, the outlook of capex is bleak as large manufacturers said they'll lower their spending by -28.2% in the fiscal year to March 2010, the biggest drop on record while all large firms plan to cut spending by -13.8%.
According to BoE's Quarterly Bulletin, Chief Economist Spencer Dale said that "employment to date has not fallen by as much as we might have feared given the falls in output." "A substantial element of the workforce appears to have been able to protect their jobs by accepting slower wage growth." "Despite the severe recession, the proportion of households who reported difficulties keeping up with bills and credit commitments had fallen slightly."
Looking at the dollar index, it's retreats mildly ahead of 76.82 resistance and some sideway trading might be seen today. But after all, short term outlook will remain bullish as long as 75.83 support holds. Rise from 74.19 is still expected to continue for 76.82 resistance. Break there will confirm that the index has bottomed out in medium term already. In such case, we'll be looking at a strong rebound to 38.2% retracement of 89.62 to 74.19 at 80.08, as a correction to fall from 89.62, in the least bullish scenario.