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Morgan Stanley Reinstates Short EUR/CHF, Target 0.90

Morgan Stanley strategists reinstated a short EUR/CHF recommendation, targeting 0.90 with a stop at 0.96, in a Wednesday report. They wrote the trade hedges a further rise in fiscal and political risk premia and the chance that bond-market volatility pushes market expectations for ECB policy toward a more dovish repricing. The strategists flagged Swiss National Bank concern over franc strength as a risk that could lift the pair, and kept a short EUR/AUD call, expecting the euro to weaken against most currencies.

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The notable element is the framing: this is pitched as a hedge against euro-area fiscal and political risk premia rather than a pure rate-differential trade, which suggests the bank sees the euro's vulnerability as institutional, not cyclical. The explicit SNB caveat matters most, since it concedes that official discomfort with franc strength is the main obstacle to the view. Whether SNB rhetoric intensifies, and whether bond-market volatility actually pulls ECB expectations dovish, are the two variables that decide if the target or the stop gets hit first.

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