Day: November 29, 2007

November 29
2007

Danger of Forex Reserves Change

Li Yang, an ex-adviser of the People’s Bank of China, suggests a great care in handling any changes to the country’s foreign currency reserves (world’s largest), that are currently composed mainly of U.S. dollars. By the Li’s words, it’s not reasonable to change the vast amount of current reserves, but the new income that goes […]

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November 29
2007

Russian Foreign Currency Reserves Continue to Grow

Foreign currency reserves of the Russian Federation grew up for the seventh week in a row and now are at their record high value — $459.6 billion. As the oil prices are surging to their new maximums the oil-exporting Russian economy wins greatly, increasing the profits of the country’s largest oil companies and supplying national currency reserves with new dollars. Russia has the third largest national reserves in the world, lagging behind China’s $1.4 trillion […]

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November 29
2007

GDP Data Released in U.S. Today

EUR/USD confirmed its downtrend intentions today falling from yesterday’s retracement to 1.4740 level. One of the reason for a stronger dollar can be seen in expectations for the increased real GDP growth in third quarter of 2007. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its preliminary report on real Q3 Gross Domestic Product. The growth was higher than the previous advance value for third quarter — 4.9% against 3.8% and the same as analysts expected […]

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