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هذا الاسبوع يشهد أكبر رهانات ( في سوق الخيارات والتحوط ) منذ عام 2007 على صعود الدولار وسقوط اليورو بقيمة 31 مليار $ على سقوط اليورو و35.5 مليار $ على صعود الدولار

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NEW YORK -- Traders on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange bet heavily this w that the dollar will appreciate and the euro will fall, holding a net $31 billion in wagers against the euro and a net $35.3 billion in gambles on the dollar's rise as of Tuesday, government data showed Friday.

The bets represented the largest net positions wagering on the euro's fall and the dollar's gain since at least 2007, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's wly report on the commitments of traders.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange's foreign-exchange traders are seen as representing hedge funds' trades around the world.

For the dollar, investors' bets were 25% higher than the previous w. Speculators' net positions against the euro were 12% higher than last w. Traders held a net 195,361 euro contracts as of Tuesday.

As currency markets world-wide reacted to the ongoing sovereign-debt crisis in the euro zone, investors also switched their views to pessimistic bets on the Australian and New Zealand dollars. That marks the first time since January 2011 that the CME's traders have bet against the Australian dollar. Speculators now hold net wagers betting that every major currency will fall against the dollar, save the British pound and the Canadian dollar.

Investors slashed their net bets against the yen by 47%, to $2.8 billion, or 18,015 contracts. For the Swiss franc, traders continue to hold a net position worth $4.6 billion betting that the currency will depreciate. That position, representing 34,851 contracts, rose 30% this w.

The Australian dollar has a net short position of $1.7 billion, with the New Zealand dollar showing a net short position of $114 million.

The CFTC's wly report shows speculative investors' positions in major currencies held against the dollar. It viewed the markets as of Tuesday.

-By Chana R. Schoenberger, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-416-4803; chana.schoenberger@dowjones.com; @djfxtrader

Stephen L. Bernard contributed to this article.


(END) Dow Jones Newswires

May 25, 2012 16:55 ET (20:55 GMT)