Day: October 13, 2009

October 13
2009

Canadian Dollar Near 1-to-1 With Greenback

The Canadian dollar benefited from another day of increased risk appetite to gain versus most of the 16 main traded currencies and trade near parity with its U.S. counterpart. Crude oil is providing support for the Canadian dollar to become one of the best trading currencies during the this October as the main Canadian export is rallying, helping the loonie towards parity versus the U.S. dollar, which, according to some analysts, is […]

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October 13
2009

New Zealand Performs Positively on Retail Sales

This Tuesday, a report posted in New Zealand surprised economists’ forecasts as retail sales in the South Pacific country came with better-than-expected growth, adding optimism to the already attractive kiwi, one of the best performing currencies in foreign-exchange markets in 2009. The kiwi climbed today versus several majors like the pound and the yen, and touched a one-year high versus the greenback after retail sales expanded more than doubled of what forecasts suggested, a strong […]

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October 13
2009

Bank of England Speculations Set Pound Down

The British currency is having another dark week losing versus its main rivals and also most of currencies traded in foreign-exchange markets as speculations that the national central bank may extend its asset-purchase program to revive the nation’s economy decreased appeal for the pound. After a report posted today showing that inflation in the U.K. dropped to the lowest level in 5 years, speculations rose that the Bank of England will eventually have […]

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October 13
2009

MetaTrader 5 Beta Testing Period

MetaQuotes Software Corp., the developer of the MetaTrader software series announced yesterday an open beta testing for its new long-awaited product — MetaTrader 5 terminal. It’s a great event for many Forex traders, indicator and EA developers, Forex brokers and other currency market participants that will be benefiting from this new MT5 trading platform. The MetaTrader 5 terminal can now be freely downloaded by anyone: http://www.metaquotes.ru/files/mt5setup.exe […]

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October 13
2009

Pricey Swiss VPS Hosting for MetaTrader

ForexVPS.ch is a rather new VPS hosting company that offers its services for the Forex traders with the MetaTrader 4 platform pre-installed on all servers. The only operating system currently available for the VPS is Linux but they are planning to launch Windows in December 2009. The main problem with this hosting is its price (CHF 79 per month), a set-up fee (CHF 99 once) and a minimum length […]

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