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  1. News in 60 Seconds: Bank holidays keep trading thinner than typical.

    by , 05-24-2010 at 09:55 AM (News in 60 Seconds)
    I'm back from Montreal from the Total Wealth Symposium.

    Biggest % gainers: USD/CHF up 0.69%, CAD/JPY, AUD/NZD. Still some overall Swiss weakness after the SNB intervened and drove EUR/CHF up almost 600 pips over the course of a couple of days or so last week.

    Biggest % losers: EUR/CAD down 1.62%, EUR/USD, EUR/JPY, EUR/AUD, EUR/GBP, EUR/CHF...euro weakness across the board. Most of these pairs are down 1% or more.

    Bank holiday (Whit Monday) in Switzerland, France, Germany and Victoria Day in Canada...causing these banks to be closed today.

    USD Existing Home Sales come out at 10am EST today. Expectation is for 5.62 million.

    NZD Inflation Expectations q/q comes out ...
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