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If at first you don't succeed, intervene again! For the second time today (at midnight ET), Banxico officials confirmed the central bank entered the market to sell US dollars in an attempt to strengthen the peso. Now we await the next Trump tweet to take the peso back down...

As Bloomberg reports, according to a Banxico official who asked not to be identified, the central bank is looking to strengthen Mexican peso.

For now the move is far less impressive - which is odd given the lack of liquidity and an irrational peso buyer...

Following the MXN rough start of the year, which saw the Mexican currency tumble to its lowest level ever, the central bank stepped into the FX market this morning by selling about $1 billion USD spot, hoping to break the destabilizing MXN relentless depreciation trend. According to the central bank market operations manager, the authorities are not just seeking to stabilize but to “strengthen the Peso”.

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

The biggest disappointment regarding Donald Trump since being elected President has been his total embrace of dangerous Wall Street thieves. As it is currently structured and incentivized, the financial services industry represents one of the most destructive and least beneficial forces within the U.S. economy. It is essentially a parasitic industry.

The confirmation of former Goldman Sachs Partner Steven Munchin, who is Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary, may have gotten just a little more problematic today, after Mnuchin declined to answer questions from Democratic senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio about his views on financial regulations, sanctions and his time as head of a bank accused of unfair foreclosure practices.

We officially have a new definition ot "thin-skinned".