That is a drop of 2 percent from the previous poll in June.

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But the June drop suggests that absent government stimulus money, the American consumer really can't save much more and that the rise in savings rates might be less a sign of a new thriftiness than it is a short-term tendency to hoard anything extra that comes in.

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From a technical perspective, this recent USD rally has not quite managed to recover 61.8% of the drop from June 7th and not even close to 50% of the drop since May 25th.

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Cash accounted for 24.3% of portfolios, a 1.3 percentage point drop from June.

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