Day: April 1, 2008

April 1
2008

UAE Studying Dirham’s Peg to Dollar

The United Arab Emirates government has established a new committee, which purpose is to study the possibility of scrapping the dirham’s peg to the U.S. dollar and the reasons to maintain this peg. According to the prime minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the study will focus on the benefits of staying with the peg or not. And the results of the study will be reported to prime minister. […]

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April 1
2008

U.S. Dollar Rallies on Better than Expected Manufacturing ISM

Despite the fact that the ISM PMI for manufacturing sector is still below the significant 50 level and the construction spending continued to fall in February, today’s economic releases inspired the stock market’s rally and the strengthening of the U.S. dollar. EUR/USD fell down from 1.5763 to 1.5582, making this day’s fall already a second largest in the last two weeks. Construction spending in February decreased at a lesser extent […]

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