Catalonia calls for govt financing help
Spain injects 19 billion euros into Bankia
S&P downgrades Bankia, Banco Popular to junk
Spain not considering EU help for banks
BOE's Weale: Weak GDP strengthens QE case
Dutch PM: We will never allow eurobonds
U Mich final consumer sentiment 79.3 vs 77.8 exp
Greek tourism revenues down 15.1% in Q1
Van Rompuy: Confident Greek people will make the right choice
Poll: Syriza 28.5$, ND 26%
EUR shorts hit record
USD leads, CAD lags
Small closing changes across the board but there was some movement. Particularly in EUR/USD, which dropped as low as 1.2495, chomping through $1 billion in bids on the. The move was short-lived and inspired short covering to 1.2547. After Europe closed it was a slow bleed lower to 1.2511.
USD/JPY slowly moved to 79.63 from 79.53. Yawn.
Cable trading had some flavor as EUR/GBP orders and barriers spilled over. A quick early move to 1.5690 from 1.5655 was quickly reversed down to a session low of 1.5629 on the Spanish regional problems. Choppy up-move to 1.5650 afterwards.
The commodity currencies are falling late in the day and threaten to close at the lows. USD/CAD broke 1.0300 on two occasions late in the day, breaking a touted barrier at that level. NZD was an outperformer for most of the day but faded to 0.7527 from 0.7583 at the highs.
Gold +$13 to $1572; oil flat at $90.76.
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