Day: November 19, 2008

November 19
2008

Consumer Prices and Housing Fall in U.S., Dollar Goes Up

EUR/USD jumped up today after the two important macroeconomic reports were released today — CPI and new housing starts. But after reaching a peak at 1.2813 EUR/USD corrected and snapped the daily growth. The currency pair is now trading near 1.2578. Consumer Price Index (CPI) decreased by 1% on a seasonally adjusted basis in October. This declined followed the stagnation in September and exceeded analysts’ forecast […]

Read more
November 19
2008

Yen Gains After Two Days of Decline

The Japanese yen rose slightly today after losing for the two days on the currency trading market as the U.S. bail-out plans failed to raise the confidence in the high-yielding assets, favoring the yen as the safe-haven currency. Investors has hoped that the part of the $700 billion plan proposed by the U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would go to the car manufacturers (GM, Ford […]

Read more