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Oil currencies’ outperformance unlikely to last

Since oil prices started to recover in early June, the Canadian dollar and Norwegian krone have outperformed their G10 peers as investors have revised up their expectations of short-term interest rates in these two oil-exporting economies. But despite recent tensions in the Persian Gulf, we think that oil prices will fall in the second half of the year and forecast that both currencies will depreciate against the US dollar.

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