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Finding Safety in a Risky Market
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One of foreign exchange traders' favorite rules of thumb hasn't been working too well.
Currency pairs tend to loosely track the difference between yields on the two nations' short-term sovereign bonds, often the two-year maturity. But that axiom would've impoverished anyone trading the Japanese yen against the U.S. dollar this year: