Day: January 14, 2011

January 14
2011

Chinese Inflation Fighting Weights AUD

Anti-inflationary measures conducted by the financial authorities of China press on the currency of its close trade partner — Australia, sending it down not worse than the floods. While the developed economies of West have just began to recover from the global financial crisis, the emerging Asian countries are already struggling with elevated inflation. Following the measures conducted by Thailand and South Korea, China continues to curb the liquidity in order to cut the consumer price […]

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January 14
2011

Dollar Continues Its Decline on Poor Consumer Sentiment

The US currency continued its decline against the major currencies today, as the internal macroeconomic reports suggested that the situation with the US consumer sector isn’t as good as it seemed. The dollar has posted a third bearish day against the Japanese yen, a fifth bearish session against the euro and a sixth daily drop against the Great Britain pound. The current series of daily declines follows a rather long rally of the US currency. December […]

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January 14
2011

US Inflation Data Helps Euro, Not Dollar

The EUR/USD behaved rather jumpy this trading session with an early morning monthly peak, a correction after it and then a new wave up until now. The latter was caused by the series of the macroeconomic releases that came out in US today. EUR/USD is currently trading near 1.3370 after rising as high as 1.3456 (record high since December 14) earlier. Advance report for the US retail sales showed a monthly […]

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January 14
2011

Euro Climbs Despite Decline of Commodities

The euro continues to show an impressive performance as optimism about the ability of the European Union’s leaders to deal with the region’s financial crisis grows every day. The size of the EU rescue fund may be increased as Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, admitted that she’ll go to any length to deal with the European problems. Jean-Claude Trichet, the President of the European Central Bank, signaled that he may consider increasing the interest rates as the inflation […]

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