The combination of the policy mix advocated by the woman who is most likely to become the next prime minister of Japan and a series of disappointing German economic data amid a political crisis in France helped lift US dollar. Many trend followers and short-term market participants were caught the wrong way, and the short squeeze accelerated the dollar's advance. Significant technical damage had been inflicted on the euro, sterling, the yen, and Canadian dollar...until Friday. Since returning from its extended national holiday on Thursday, China announced three measures that escalated the tensions between Beijing and ... (full story)