By Ashraf Laidi, March 16, 2011 The primary reason for the currency’s stabilization earlier this year and the subsequent 10% rally from early Jan was the ECB’s hawkish rhetoric in the face of rising inflation. 2.4% annual inflation was a sufficiently good reason for the ECB to make a hawkish twist, especially as it underwent the awkward task of having to buy Irish and Portuguese bonds, while preaching monetary discipline and price stability. Bernanke’s constant reiterations to maintain QE2 into June did not help the US dollar and neither did the low-volume surge in global equities to…
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