FOREX-通貨 markets 再開する 危険-on 決起大会／結集させる, shrugging off U.S.-中国 領事館 spat
By Elizabeth Howcroft
LONDON, July 22 - 通貨 仲買人s 回復するd their 危険 appetite on Wednesday, shrugging off U.S.-中国 緊張s and 再開するing the 危険-on moves that have 支配するd since European Union leaders agreed on a 会計の 刺激 計画（する） on Tuesday.
危険 appetite in 通貨 markets 減らすd for around two hours, after 中国's foreign 省 said the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs had told 中国 on July 21 to の近くに its 領事館 in Houston, in Texas.
The move 示すd a 悪化／低下 in U.S.-中国 relations, which have become more fraught since the 突発／発生 of COVID-19.
The headlines from Houston caught 仲買人s off-guard, said Westpac FX 分析家 Sean Callow, 誘発するing 恐れるs that this 最新の 論争 could be the one to 停止（させる） the U.S.-中国 貿易（する） 取引，協定, although he considers that ありそうもない.
The 通貨 market's reaction was short-lived. The 支配的な mood remained 楽観的な, に引き続いて the EU's 協定 on a 750 billion-euro 回復 基金 to 株 the 負債s incurred during the coronavirus 危機.
"For now, 投資家s are still buying into the 回復 story にもかかわらず the building 中国-U.S. 緊張s again and for now at least that still seems to be the path of least 抵抗," said Jeremy Stretch, 長，率いる of G10 FX 戦略 at CIBC 資本／首都 Markets.
After 伸び（る）ing on the U.S.-中国 headlines, the dollar 索引 再開するd 落ちるing and was 負かす／撃墜する 0.1% at 95.028 at 1050 GMT. The last time it was this low was on March 9; before that it had not seen such lows since October 2018.
The euro - which has 決起大会／結集させるd since the EU 回復 基金 was first 提案するd in May - continued to 伸び（る）, reaching a new high of $1.1584, its strongest since October 2018.
"I think it may 井戸／弁護士席 be the 事例／患者 that there's some てこ入れ／借入資本d players who´ve been の近くにing out short positions," said CIBC's Stretch.
The Australian dollar was up 0.3% at $0.71530 and the New Zealand dollar was up 0.4% at $0.6665.
A ゆらめく-up of coronavirus 事例／患者s and the re introduction of lockdown 対策 in Australia's second-largest 明言する／公表する had little 衝撃 on the 通貨, even after 報告（する）／憶測s that the 最新の ウイルス 突発／発生 will 削減（する） the country's third-４半期/4分の1 GDP growth by 0.75 百分率 points.
The Chinese 沖合いの／海外の yuan, which 弱めるd past 7 per dollar on U.S.-中国 headlines, was slower to 回復する, at 6.9954 .
一方／合間, 英貨の／純銀の fell versus the dollar and euro, driven by a 報告（する）／憶測 in the 財政上の Times that the British 政府 has abandoned hopes of clinching a 解放する／自由な-貿易（する） を取り引きする the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs by the end of the year.
THE WEAKER DOLLAR
The dollar was 弱めるd earlier in the 開会／開廷／会期 by 関心 about a 延期する to U.S. 会計の 刺激, as 共和国の／共和党のs and 民主党員s struggle to reach a 合意 on the next 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 刺激.
"Somehow, everything looks a little better for the euro than for the dollar. One-nil for it in the fight against the ウイルス and the 後退，不況," Antje Praefcke, Commerzbank FX and EM strategist, wrote in a 公式文書，認める to （弁護士の）依頼人s.
MUFG strategist Derek Halpenny 公式文書，認めるd the dollar had 弱めるd in 2010-12, which was also a period when real U.S. 財務省 産する／生じるs were 落ちるing.
"We are of a long way off another form of hawkish 指導／手引 the like of May 2013, so new lows in 10-year real 産する／生じるs look likely which will only 増強する the medium-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 消極的な 見通し for the dollar," he said.
The 部隊d 明言する／公表するs 報告（する）／憶測d more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday, によれば a Reuters 一致する, the first time since June 10 the nation has より勝るd that milestone. California was の近くに to passing New York in total 感染s.
U.S. 大統領 Donald Trump 転換d his rhetoric and トン on Wednesday, 説 that the coronavirus pandemic would get worse before it got better.
(報告（する）／憶測ing by Elizabeth Howcroft; 付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Noah Sin and Tom Westbrook; editing by Catherine Evans, Larry King)
