Day: July 24, 2008

July 24
2008

EUR/USD Gains after Decline in Jobs, Home Sales

EUR/USD gained a little today, correcting from the previous daily drawdowns, after the jobless claims and existing home sales statistics was released today in the United States. Dollar was standing at a strong upward position on the Forex market for the last today, but today it reacted sharply on the fundamental data and after a high intraday volatility lost somewhat to euro. Initial jobless claims soared from 372k to 406k last week after consensus […]

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July 24
2008

NZD at Lowest since January on Rate Cut

The New Zealand dollar fell to its 6-month low level against the U.S. dollar after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand cut the interest rate by a quarter percent point in its first rate reduction in the last five years. Today New Zealand currency (also known as Kiwi) continued its downward trend started a week ago when traders began to decrease their positions in NZD […]

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