IN a mostly muted week, better-than-expected US retail sales provided the market with some catalyst. In most cases, good US data would spur risk-on and consequently an appreciation of risk currencies.
Paradoxically, the US dollar strengthened on lower likelihood of quantitative easing being employed because of the relatively better than expected US data. Other US data released this week were also mixed.
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