Chile to Buy U.S. Dollars to Weaken Peso

The Central Bank of Chile will be buying the U.S. dollars in 2008 in order to stimulate the economy by the weaker national currency. This year, starting April 14 Chile’s central bank will be buying $50 million every day on the Forex market to increase the overal country’s currency …

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BoE Cuts Rate, ECB Holds again

Both Bank of England and the European Central Bank acted as expected today during their monetary policy meetings — BoE cut the interest rate to 5.00% and ECB left them unchanged at 4.00%. Facing the problems in the housing and the financial sectors of the economy, the Bank of England, decided to lower the interest …

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Pound Slides as House Prices Fall 2.5%

The Great Britain pound fell sharply today against dollar, euro and yen as the house prices fell in March by 2.5%, indicating that the country’s mortgage market slump is not over yet. Halifax House Price Index — a housing report of HBOSplc — showed a 2.5% decline in prices for March …

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