EUR and GBP net shorts increased – Deutsche Bank
Research Team at Deutsche Bank, lists down the commitments of traders report for the week ended on Tuesday, July 12, 2016.
Key Quotes
“Interest Rates: Speculators increased their net positions in Treasury futures by $9.8 billion to $7.7 billion in ten-year Treasury equivalents. They added 35K and 14K contracts to their net longs in TY and US, respectively and also reduced 73K contracts from their net shorts in FV. However, they increased their net shorts in Eurodollar futures by 243K contracts and decreased their net longs in TU by 62K contracts.
- ED contracts decreased 243K to -307K
- TU contracts decreased 62K to 38K
- FV contracts increased 73K to -124K
- TY contracts increased 35K to 131K
- TN contracts increased 5K to 11K
- US contracts increased 14K to 104K
- WN contracts increased 1K to -78K
FX: Specs increased 12K and 11K contracts in their EUR and GBP net shorts over the week. They also sold 16K contracts in JPY futures but added 6K and 11K contracts to their net longs in CAD and AUD futures, respectively.
Commodities: Specs sold 68K and 19K contracts in corn and gold futures, respectively this week. They reduced 5K contracts from their net longs in oil for the third straight week but increased their net longs in silver by 2K contracts for the fifth week in a row.
Equities: Specs increased 31K contracts from their net longs in S&P e-mini futures and also bought 28K contracts in Nasdaq mini futures. They reduced 6K contracts from their Nikkei futures net longs.”