Reporting By Karen Brettell
Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Tom Brown
Sept 18 (Reuters) – Speculators reduced their net short dollar positions in the latest week, according to calculations by Reuters and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday.
The value of the net short dollar position fell to $30.90 billion in the week ended Sept. 15, compared with a net short of $32.67 billion the previous week.
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In a wider measure of dollar positioning that includes net contracts on the New Zealand dollar, Mexican peso, Brazilian real and Russian ruble, the U.S. dollar posted a net short position of $31.52 billion, down from $32.99 billion a week earlier.
Japanese Yen (Contracts of 12,500,000 yen)
Net dollar short by $-2.564 billion
EURO (Contracts of 125,000 euros)
Net dollar short by $-28.978 billion
POUND STERLING (Contracts of 62,500 pounds sterling)
Net dollar short by $-1.033 billion
SWISS FRANC (Contracts of 125,000 Swiss francs)
Net dollar short by $-1.571 billion
CANADIAN DOLLAR (Contracts of 100,000 Canadian dollars)
Net dollar long by $1.312 billion
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR (Contracts of 100,000 Aussie dollars)
Net dollar long by $0.147 billion
MEXICAN PESO (Contracts of 500,000 pesos)
Net dollar short by $0.192 billion
NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR (Contracts of 100,000 New Zealand dollars)
Net dollar short by $-0.324 billion
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