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Currency seasonality’s slow comeback?

Olivier Desbarres

4X Global Research (4XGR)
February 2, 2021

This report updates the monthly seasonal patterns of 31 major Nominal Effective Exchange Rates (NEERs) going back to January 2010, using over two million daily data points with trade-weights derived from the BIS (April 2019) and national central banks (see Nominal Effective Excha...

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