NEW YORK, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Currency speculators increased
bets in favor of the U.S. dollar in the latest week, data from
the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed on Friday.
The value of the dollar's net long position rose to $5.97
billion in the week to Nov. 18, up from $5.92 billion the
previous week.
The aggregate U.S. dollar position is derived from the net
positions of International Monetary Market speculators in the
yen, euro, British pound, Swiss franc, Canadian and Australian
dollars.
JAPANESE YEN (Contracts of 12,500,000 yen)
11/18/08 week 11/11/08 week
Long 46,827 46,353
Short 22,693 21,842
Net 24,134 24,511
EURO (Contracts of 125,000 euros)
11/18/08 week 11/11/08 week
Long 29,073 25,967
Short 46,431 46,588
Net -17,358 -20,621
POUND STERLING (Contracts of 62,500 pounds sterling)
11/18/08 week 11/11/08 week
Long 5,160 5,967
Short 47,591 45,805
Net -42,431 -39,838
SWISS FRANC (Contracts of 125,000 Swiss francs)
11/18/08 week 11/11/08 week
Long 5,740 4,826
Short 19,329 14,982
Net -13,589 -10,156
CANADIAN DOLLAR (Contracts of 100,000 Canadian dollars)
11/18/08 week 11/11/08 week
Long 15,426 16,067
Short 22,603 19,312
Net -7,177 -3,245
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR (Contracts of 100,000 Aussie dollars)
11/18/08 week 11/11/08 week
Long 6,661 7,314
Short 12,451 15,918
Net -5,790 -8,604
MEXICAN PESO (Contracts of 500,000 pesos)
11/18/08 week 11/11/08 week
Long 4,390 3,739
Short 5,325 6,074
Net -935 -2,335
NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR (Contracts of 100,000 New Zealand
dollars)
11/18/08 week 11/11/08 week
Long 2,607 2,878
Short 4,248 4,244
Net -1,641 -1,366
(Reporting by Wanfeng Zhou; Editing by James Dalgleish)
