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Traders and investors are looking to global interest rate cuts and a heated U.S. election to yank global currency markets out of their worst slump in nearly four years. Measures of both historical and expected volatility - how much prices move over a set period of time - have slumped in recent months as the world's biggest central banks stayed put, depriving foreign-exchange traders of access to the divergent movements among regional bond yields they rely on. Deutsche Bank's closely watched implied currency volatility gauge is near a two-year low, not far off its pre-outbreak level.