Three big prints hit the tape this week, and all three move directly through our book. The BoJ hiked 25bp to 1.00% on Tuesday — the Policy Board voted 7-1 to raise the benchmark overnight call rate, with Asada Toichiro the sole dissenter, and at 1.00% the policy rate stands at its highest level since September 1995, a 31-year high. That confirms the lone-hiker thesis underwriting every yen-cross short in the strategic book. On Wednesday the Fed held but flipped hawkish — the median policymaker now expects rates to end 2026 higher than today, a flip from March when the median still implied a cut, and 17 of 18 officials judged inflation risks tilted to the upside — fuel for the tactical dollar longs (USD/CHF, USD/CAD) even as we fade them strategically. And the US-Iran ceasefire kept oil sliding: prices have tumbled around 20% from 2026 highs on optimism over a long-lasting deal that would unlock shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — petro-CAD's pain, and the core of our long AUD/CAD.
The yen now out-yields the franc for the first time this cycle — and the entire G10 cross-complex still hasn't repriced what that inversion means.
Three themes driving G10 FX
- Policy fragmentation at 1990s extremes — the ECB is hiking, the Fed and BoE are frozen, the BoC wants to cut but cannot, and the BoJ is normalising — and divergence this wide is the engine behind every tactical-strategic direction flip in our matrix.
- The yen carry inversion — with the BoJ at 1.00% the yen out-yields the franc (CHF/JPY now shows −100bp), turning the seven yen-cross shorts into convexity trades that pay nothing to hold but unwind violently on a positioning squeeze.
- The oil collapse as a CAD wrecking ball — sub-$90 Brent hits petro-CAD directly while iron-ore-anchored AUD is insulated, widening the cleanest commodity divergence in G10 just as the +210bp RBA-BoC carry gap rewards the long.
Our top 3 trades
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Long SGD/CHF The rare cross where both legs point the same way — bid SGD on a locked MAS slope and 6% growth, sold CHF against an SNB capping franc strength. Carry: +130bp (aligned) |
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Long EUR/CHF The cleanest carry-and-divergence story in Europe — a +225bp ECB-SNB gap plus an SNB reaction function that leans only against franc strength, biasing the distribution higher. Carry: +225bp (aligned) |
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Long AUD/CAD The widest commodity-G10 carry gap at +210bp, with the oil collapse hitting petro-CAD hard while iron-ore-anchored AUD stays insulated. Carry: +210bp (aligned) |
The yen-cross shorts carry the highest expected value in the book but bleed carry while you wait — express those through optionality, not spot.
On our radar
| Jun 22 | Singapore May CPI / MAS Core | Affects: SGD/CHF |
| Jun 22 | Canada CPI (May) | Affects: AUD/CAD |
| Jul 1 | USMCA joint-review trigger | Affects: AUD/CAD |
| Jul 3 | Swiss CPI (June) | Affects: EUR/CHF, SGD/CHF |
The USMCA trigger carries the highest asymmetry — it's the one event that can flip AUD/CAD via a CAD short-squeeze on a clean renewal, and the crowded 6th-percentile CAD short is the dominant near-term reversal risk to all three long legs.
Carry snapshot
Carry is broadly working across the CHF and high-yield complex — every CHF-short cross sits in "Carry working," which is exactly why our three top trades are all carry-aligned longs you get paid to hold. But the yen complex has inverted, so the highest-EV yen shorts now cost you carry to wait — express the structural turn through optionality and catalyst timing, not held spot.
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