Day: March 18, 2008

March 18
2008

EUR/USD Unchanged on Mixed Fundamentals

EUR/USD remained mainly unchanged after today’s releases of the macroeconomic statistics in U.S. The overall trading day was bullish for the currency pair — it rose from 1.5715 to 1.5783, but it failed to set a new record high level today. The yesterday’s high value at 1.5902 remains the highest rate that EUR/USD ever reached on Forex. Building permits in February fell down from 1,061k to 978k, while only a mild drawdown […]

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March 18
2008

Australian Bank Lower U.S. Dollar Forecasts

According to Australia’s largest mortgage provider, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the U.S. dollar will perform worse than experts previously expected for this year. The strengthening financial crisis in the United States forced the Federal Reserve to cut rates at a greater pace than it was expected in the bank’s previous forecast. The  U. S. dollar has already dropped about 5% against the Australian dollar and 3.9% against […]

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