Death By Trade Tweet: How FX Markets Cope With ‘High-Volume Tariff News’ Days

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2 thoughts on “Death By Trade Tweet: How FX Markets Cope With ‘High-Volume Tariff News’ Days”

We know the US intelligence ‘community’ has spent a fair amount of effort – and perhaps still does – examining derivatives prices looking for warning signs of a possible terrorist attack (based on the airlines/9-11 connection). Maybe they should devote some effort towards looking for signs of EM front-running ahead of Trump-tweets. Who knows where that might lead. Yeah, I know……probably straight to Moscow.