A change in balance

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Recent two-year dollar highs have confounded most commentators. Naturally, it didn't take long for the market to get on the back of the USD rally, discarding US deficit reason, and going with 'increasing interest rate differentials' as justification. Of course, that is too simplistic, though the increasing cost of financing US treasury bond hedges for Japanese fund managers did encourage some to abandon them, adding to dollar upside.

Perhaps the most important and ultimately surprising factor to

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