Provocative piece in the weekend Barron’s making the case for a big reversal in the dollar/Euro exchange rate. The essence:
- European monetary policy is considerably more profligate than critics think
- The Euro is not recession tested
- Rapidly-aging European populations and immigration-related unemployment problems create growth pressures
- Asian central bankers are finally realizing the downside to their current currency pegs
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I’ve been a GaveKal (source for the Barrons article) subscriber for years, and its worth pointing out they have been bullish the US $ vs. the Euro for years.
Nonetheless, it’s interesting that every pitch for buying the Euro is, “yes, it’s overvalued by 25-30% based on traditional valuation methods (near perfect agreement on that), but near-term the US fundamentals look terrible.†That makes sense from a trader’s perspective, since momentum in currencies is much more powerful that in other markets.
But, do fundamentals ever look good at a bear-market bottom?
I’ll add that historically the Euro/$ (and DM/$) has several times hit 30% overvalued vs. a reasonable “fair value†estimate, but never over, and once again we are at 30%.
interesting but i think your final bullet point is where the real story lies—emerging asian currencies, especially yuan are where the action is going to be for a long time(excellent article on this by Michael Gomez of Pimco-on their website), watch the yuan and of course crude oil continue upward—Pk of OilGasFutures.Com