Day: March 5, 2010

March 5
2010

U.S. Positive Data Helps Dollar

The dollar is going to end this week trading near neutrality versus the euro as several days of alternating risk appetite and aversion moved markets both ways during the past 5 days. Today, better than expected employment data in the U.S. allow the dollar to end this week trading with a slight advantage versus the euro in the weekly comparison. EUR/USD currently trades at 1.3617. Nonfarm payrolls were at -36k in February from […]

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March 5
2010

Zloty Hits Record High on Rate Talks

The Polish zloty is facing a scenario different from its neighboring currencies in the Baltics, central Europe and the euro as interest rates may rise in the following months to control the country’s growing inflation, helping the zloty to climb in forex markets this Thursday. After a Polish government official stated that interest rates may be hiked in the second half of this year to prevent inflation to grow beyond the nation’s targets, the zloty reached the highest […]

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