Day: October 30, 2008

October 30
2008

Dollar Falls on Rate Cut, GDP Contraction

EUR/USD continued to rise today and showed a third day of gain on the Forex market, as the dollar fell after the yesterday’s rate cut decision. Federal Reserve reduced the funds rate from 1.5% to 1%. Another reason for the dollar’s decline were the macroeconomic indicators released in U.S. EUR/USD is currently trading near 1.3035 after reaching 1.3288 today. The advance report for the third quarter 2008 GDP […]

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October 30
2008

Australian Dollar Rises for the Third Day

The Australian dollar rose against the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen for the third day today after the rate cut in U.S. and a moderate decline in the global risk-aversion. The Aussie gained against the U.S. dollar after the Federal Reserve reduced the interest rate by 50 basis points to 1 percent. China’s central bank cut the one-year lending rate from 6.93 percent […]

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