News: UPDATE 1-U.S. net long dollars fall in latest week -CFTC, Reuters

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    July 19 (Reuters) - Speculators cut their net long dollar position in the latest week, according to calculations by Reuters and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday.

    The value of the dollar's net long position, derived from net positions of International Monetary Market speculators in the yen, euro, British pound, Swiss franc and Canadian and Australian dollars, fell to $15.20 billion in the week ending July 16, from $15.48 billion the previous week.

    It has fallen from $38.88 billion in April. In a wider measure of dollar positioning NETUSDALL= that includes net contracts on the New Zealand dollar, Mexican peso, Brazilian real and Russian ruble, the U.S. dollar posted a net long position valued at $11.66 billion, the lowest since June 2018 and down from $12.38 billion a week earlier.

    The dollar index .DXY has fallen from a two-year high on May 23 on growing expectations that the Federal Reserve is closer to cutting interest rates, which is now seen as certain when the U.S. central bank meets on July 30-31. Japanese Yen (Contracts of 12,500,000 yen) Net dollar long by $0.419 billion

    		 16 Jul 2019			Prior week 
    		 week			  
    
     Long			 32,905			35,346 
     Short			44,285			38,997 
     Net			 -11,380			-3,651 
    EURO (Contracts of 125,000 euros) 
    

    Net dollar long by $5.024 billion

    		 16 Jul 2019			Prior week 
    		 week			  
    
     Long			170,487		   158,398 
     Short		   201,838		   194,263 
     Net			 -31,351		   -35,865 
    POUND STERLING (Contracts of 62,500 pounds sterling) 
    

    Net dollar long by $5.686 billion

    		 16 Jul 2019		   Prior week 
    		 week			  
    
     Long			 35,190		   36,232 
     Short		   111,547		  109,214 
     Net			 -76,357		  -72,982 
    SWISS FRANC (Contracts of 125,000 Swiss francs) 
    

    Net dollar long by $1.312 billion

    		 16 Jul 2019		   Prior week 
    		 week			  
    
     Long			  5,962			7,149 
     Short			17,694		   17,577 
     Net			 -11,732		  -10,428 
    CANADIAN DOLLAR (Contracts of 100,000 Canadian dollars) 
    

    Net dollar short by $-0.703 billion

    		 16 Jul 2019		   Prior week 
    		 week			  
    
     Long			 63,098		   48,734 
     Short			42,134		   39,508 
     Net			  20,964			9,226 
    AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR (Contracts of 100,000 Aussie dollars) 
    

    Net dollar long by $3.741 billion

    		 16 Jul 2019		   Prior week 
    		 week			  
    
     Long			 31,843		   31,850 
     Short			84,419		   85,857 
     Net			 -52,576		  -54,007 
    MEXICAN PESO (Contracts of 500,000 pesos) 
    

    Net dollar short by $3.299 billion

    		 16 Jul 2019		   Prior week 
    		 week			  
    
     Long			168,473		  181,214 
     Short			40,352		   54,832 
     Net			 128,121		  126,382 
    NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR (Contracts of 100,000 New Zealand dollars) 
    

    Net dollar long by $1.466 billion

    		 16 Jul 2019		   Prior week 
    		 week			  
    
     Long			 10,839		   10,484 
     Short			28,158		   32,689 
     Net			 -17,319		  -22,205                        
 
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