Speculators up bets against US dollar for 2nd week-CFTC, Reuters

April 25 (Reuters) - Speculators bet against the U.S. dollar

for a second straight week, according to data from the Commodity

Futures Trading Commission released on Friday.

The value of the dollar's net short position was $1.58

billion in the week ended April 22, from $1.17 billion the

previous week. Last week was the first time in six months that

short-term investors turned short the greenback.

There were minimal changes to this week's CFTC (Taiwan OTC: 1586.TWO - news) positioning,

except for the Australian dollar. Net (Dusseldorf: NETK.DU - news) long contracts on the

Australian dollar doubled to 16,370 in the latest week.

To be long a currency is a view it will rise, while being

short is a bet its value will decline.

The Reuters calculation for the aggregate U.S. dollar

position is derived from net positions of International Monetary

Market speculators in the yen, euro, British pound, Swiss franc

and Canadian and Australian dollars.

Japanese Yen (Contracts of 12,500,000 yen)

22Apr2014 week Prior week

Long 16,564 14,351

Short 83,807 83,067

Net -67,243 -68,716

EURO (Contracts of 125,000 euros)

22Apr2014 week Prior week

Long 101,204 106,252

Short 75,430 78,564

Net 25,774 27,688

POUND STERLING (Contracts of 62,500 pounds sterling)

22Apr2014 week Prior week

Long 89,692 87,472

Short 41,892 36,874

Net 47,800 50,598

SWISS FRANC (Contracts of 125,000 Swiss francs)

22Apr2014 week Prior week

Long 21,732 23,905

Short 7,709 9,839

Net 14,023 14,066

CANADIAN DOLLAR (Contracts of 100,000 Canadian dollars)

22Apr2014 week Prior week

Long 27,529 28,288

Short 62,984 63,714

Net -35,455 -35,426

AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR (Contracts of 100,000 Aussie dollars)

22Apr2014 week Prior week

Long 49,540 40,463

Short 33,170 32,366

Net 16,370 8,097

MEXICAN PESO (Contracts of 500,000 pesos)

22Apr2014 week Prior week

Long 68,329 71,038

Short 14,818 16,801

Net 53,511 54,237

NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR (Contracts of 100,000 New Zealand dollars)

22Apr2014 week Prior week

Long 26,056 26,671

Short 5,881 6,824

Net 20,175 19,847

(Reporting by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss; Editing by Nick

Zieminski)