Risk Recovery Short Lived, Dollar to Extend Rally in a Busy Week ahead Risk markets attempted a recovery last week on some positive news as Germany and Finland approved expansion of the EFSF while Troika returned to Greece finally. However, strength of the recovery was far from impressive and lost momentum towards the end of the week. While major US and European stock indices managed to hold well above recent low, the CRB commodity index made a new low on Friday and closed below 300 level for first in almost a year. Dollar index's retreat was rather shallow and was contained at 77.30 while Friday's rally put the index back pressing recent high of 78.86. This could also be reflected in major dollar pairs which lost momentum. Commodity currencies also turned weak with Canadian dollar and New Zealand dollar making new record low against US dollar. Full Report Here... | |