Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent\u2019s previous move towards increased Treasury buybacks appears to have left a lasting impression on markets. If investors believe rising long-end yields will eventually trigger greater intervention from the Treasury, then higher yields do not necessarily translate cleanly into dollar strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead, they can raise questions around fiscal sustainability, debt management and the longer-term value of the currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That creates an unusual split.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The front end is saying the Fed may stay tighter<\/strong>, which should support the dollar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The back end is raising fiscal and Treasury-management concerns<\/strong>, which is weighing against that support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For dollar bulls, that divergence is worth watching closely. A hawkish repricing from the Fed has so far been unable to completely unwind the fiscal-risk premium embedded in the currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite Monday\u2019s weakness, chasing the dollar lower may still be premature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After Warsh\u2019s speech, markets would probably need a run of materially weaker US economic releases to meaningfully unwind expectations for the 16 September FOMC meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The key test begins with ISM Manufacturing and JOLTS, followed by ADP employment, ISM Services and finally Friday\u2019s payroll report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The baseline remains relatively resilient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ISM Manufacturing is expected to remain above 55, while services activity is expected to stabilise. ADP employment around 40,000 would be soft but not necessarily weak enough to completely change the Fed debate, while payroll growth of around 65,000 would reinforce the idea that the labour market is cooling rather than collapsing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That distinction matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A modest slowdown is unlikely to be enough to overturn Warsh\u2019s hawkish signal. For the dollar correction to develop into something more structural, markets probably need several indicators to deteriorate together and force a meaningful reassessment of September tightening expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Technically, the Dollar Index is trading back around 99.60<\/strong>, having rebounded from the August lows near 98.60 but so far failed to reclaim the psychologically important 100.00 area<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The chart makes the battle fairly clear. The 100.00\u2013100.15 region has become an important resistance zone following August\u2019s breakdown. A clean move back through that area would suggest the post-Warsh repricing is beginning to feed back into FX and would strengthen the case for another leg higher in the dollar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, however, DXY remains underneath it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That leaves the dollar in an interesting position: monetary-policy expectations are supportive, but the currency itself has yet to fully confirm them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The important signal this week is therefore not simply whether US data is \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cbad\u201d. It is whether the data is weak enough to reverse the hawkish repricing already embedded in short-term rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If ISM, labour data and services activity broadly hold up, the front-end rates story should remain supportive and DXY could make another attempt at reclaiming 100.00<\/strong>. September seasonality also historically tends to favour the dollar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If, however, the US produces a cluster of meaningful downside surprises and markets begin stripping out September tightening expectations, the current dollar pullback would have a much stronger fundamental foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, the cleaner read is that the dollar correction has run ahead of the change in Fed expectations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The burden of proof therefore sits with the US data. Until the front end begins following the dollar lower, the move below 100 looks more like a test of support for the hawkish narrative than a definitive reversal of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The dollar is testing whether Kevin Warsh\u2019s hawkish Fed message can hold as Treasury concerns and key US data shape the next move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":32935,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","market_insights_categories":[17],"class_list":["post-32928","market_insights","type-market_insights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","market_insights_categories-opening-bell"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThis week\u2019s data should decide whether the correction continues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
DXY: 100 remains the key technical level<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nOpening Bell view<\/h2>\n\n\n\n