Fed Chair Janet Yellen talked quite decisively about raising the rates in 2015. She chose not to lean towards academic talk in her lecture but rather talk business, sounding more hawkish than her previous dovish tone just one week ago.
The result, although on thin liquidity, is quite clear: a stronger US dollar: EUR/USD fell over 50 pips to 1.1170 and other currencies followed.
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