US dollar bullish bets inched up to $15.32 billion from $15.19 billion against the major currencies during the one week period, according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) covering data up to July 23 and released on Friday July 26. The dollar strengthening resumed as steep interest rate cut expectations at July 30-31 meeting moderated after New York Fed said Williams’ comments about need to ‘act quickly’ referred to his academic research and not upcoming Federal Reserve meeting, and University of Michigan consumer sentiment index was revised upward.
CFTC Sentiment vs Exchange Rate
| July 23 2019 | Bias | Ex RateTrend | Position $ mln | Weekly Change |
| CAD | bullish | negative | 2341 | 739 |
| AUD | bearish | negative | -3360 | 325 |
| EUR | bearish | negative | -5437 | -1044 |
| GBP | bearish | negative | -6109 | -189 |
| CHF | bearish | negative | -1674 | -190 |
| JPY | bearish | negative | -1083 | 231 |
| Total | -15322 |