Natural and catastrophic events · Pandemic and public health crises
Natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and other severe weather-related phenomena generally, and widespread disease, including pandemics and epidemics, have been and may be highly disruptive to economies and markets, adversely impacting individual companies, sectors, industries, markets, currencies, interest and inflation rates.
Economic and market conditions · Inflation and deflation pressures
Domestic and foreign inflation rates and investors' expectations concerning inflation rates are factors that may affect the prices of the DX Contracts and foreign exchange rates on the Index Currencies.
Natural and catastrophic events · Natural disasters and extreme weather
Natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and other severe weather-related phenomena generally, and widespread disease, including pandemics and epidemics, have been and may be highly disruptive to economies and markets, adversely impacting individual companies, sectors, industries, markets, currencies, interest and inflation rates.
Economic and market conditions · Economic recession and downturns
A decrease in U.S. imports or exports, changes in trade regulations, including the threat or actual imposition of tariffs, trade wars or other economic sanctions on traditional allies or adversaries and their responses thereto, inflation, and/or an economic recession in the U.S. may have a material adverse effect on the U.S. economy, global financial markets as a whole and the currency futures markets to which the Fund has exposure.
Geopolitical and trade · Trade policies tariffs and sanctions
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, various countries, including the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, France, and Japan, as well as NATO and the European Union, issued broad-ranging economic sanctions against Russia and Belarus. Increasingly strained relations between the U.S. and foreign countries, including as a result of economic sanctions and tariffs, may also adversely affect currency futures markets.
Natural and catastrophic events · Force majeure and business interruption
The futures market may be subject to temporary distortions due to various factors, including, among others, lack of liquidity, congestion, disorderly closing periods, manipulation and disruptive conduct, limitations on deliverable supplies, excessive speculation, changes in trade regulation or economic sanctions, government regulation and intervention, technical and operational or system failures, nuclear accidents, terrorism, riots and acts of God.