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<ul><li>CFTC data reflects broadly steady positioning in the USD amongst all market participants running into the US Thanksgiving break last week.</li><li>Trends were split across specific currency contracts but aggregate exposure to the USD among NonCommercial (speculative) accounts was all but unchanged (just USD14mn higher, to be precise) on the week at USD23.3bn.</li><li>Leveraged traders (hedge funds) pared some USD2bn from their net long USD positions, taking exposure down to USD6.9bn, and Institutional (real money) traders held their tentative net long USD position little changed at USD1.3bn</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

CFTC data reflects broadly steady positioning in the USD amongst all market participants running into the US Thanksgiving break last week.Trends were split across specific currency contracts but aggregate exposure to the USD among NonCommercial (speculative) accounts was all but unchanged (just USD14mn higher, to be precise) on the week at USD23.3bn.Leveraged traders (hedge funds) pared some USD2bn from their net long USD positions, taking exposure down to USD6.9bn, and Institutional (real money) traders held their tentative net long USD position little changed at USD1.3bnContent is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Weekly CFTC Sentiment Report - USD Sentiment Mixed but Stable into Holiday Break