After seeing a few too many tweets stating that the oil market is leading this highly-correlated dance, I investigated last night’s sharp reversal and found it was dollar yen, not crude oil that set the trend.
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If world financial markets are depending on dollar yen now, we are in for some trouble, as the above long-term, as yet unconfirmed, head-and-shoulders formation on dollar yen shows.
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