Day: November 7, 2008

November 7
2008

Nonfarm Employment Down, Supports EUR/USD

EUR/USD is up today after two days of decline. Employment statistics is hurting the dollar during the last two days and the bets that the Fed will have to continue cutting the interest rates become more popular. EUR/USD is currently trading near 1.2748. Nonfarm payrolls declined by 240,000 in October — that’s even more than the analysts expected (200,000), being quite pessimistic. September’s decline was also […]

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November 7
2008

Dollar Falls Before Employment Report

The U.S. dollar declined against the euro and the British pound as the traders expect that the release of the important employment data from U.S. will show the worst contraction since 2003 today. After two days of falling against the Japanese yen, the U.S. currency is currently standing almost unchanged after losing somewhat during the Asian trading session. The bad […]

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