Day: March 14, 2008

March 14
2008

EU Leaders Include Strong Euro Reference

European leaders decided to include the strong euro reference to their two-day Brussels meeting conclusion, which is to be released today. Earlier today, this conclusion was expected to come out without a notice about the fast appreciation of the euro against the U.S. dollar. But that point didn’t please the French delegation including the president Nicolas Sarkozy. The French finance authorities started to insist on some […]

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March 14
2008

Not a Single Day Without Dollar’s Antirecord

During the last nine days, only one day didn’t bring a new absolute record level on EUR/USD; it was last Friday, March 7. Today EUR/USD reached a new maximum value at 1.5687 renewing the yesterday’s record at 1.5644. In February seasonally adjusted CPI didn’t change at all according the report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In January it grew by 0.4% and for this month the majority of the market analysts expected a 0.3% […]

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March 14
2008

Yuan at Highest Rate since 2005

The Chinese yuan rose to its new highest rate against the U.S. dollar since the end of a currency’s peg to the dollar in 2005. The dollar weakened on the international currency market this week as a lot of the disappointing macroeconomic statistics along with the Fed’s readiness to cut the interest rate pressed on the U.S. currency. Meanwhile high inflation rate in China pressed on the government for a faster […]

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