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Broad dollar strength The market is sending uneasy signals. Stocks are holding up but there's a flight to the US dollar in FX, in particularly against commodity currencies and EM.

Rasied target from 1.0200 Athanasios Vamvakidis, head of G 10 currency strategy said:

Arizona is a hotspot for coronavirus now The detailed statistics from Arizona – a new hotspot for the coronavirus – are showing: – Confirmed Cases: 43,443 – Daily Case Increase: 2,519 (+6.2%)(record) President Trump is on a collision course with the state's increase in cases as he will be holding a ral

This is as expected OPEC+ makes no recommendations to extend record oil cuts in August. This is as expected. The price of crude oil futures $38.43. That is up $0.47 or 1.34%

The latest hospitalization numbers in Texas Texas hospitalizations rose 5.5% in past 24 hours  vs +11% a day ago The total is 2947 now, up 218 from yesterday. This chart doesn't include today:

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The latest virus data from Florida on Thursday, June 18, 2020: This isn't a case of more testing. The number of tests hasn't significantly risen for a month. Here's the chart of cases, which doesn't include today at +3206:

The latest numbers from the UK These numbers are way down from the peak but if you go back to early March, there were far fewer than 1200 cases and it didn't take long for a spike. With the economy reopening and people soon-to-be riding the tube again, there is still fertile ground for a […]

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$1 trillion? $2 trillion? One of the biggest factors for how the US dollar reacts in the month ahead will be the contours of the next round of US government stimulus.