According to, Toyoo Gyohten, the president of the Tokyo based Institute of International Monetary Affairs, the Japanese economy may enter a short period of recession soon and that will slow down or even reverse the yen?s appreciation trend. As the result of this …
The Chinese yuan continued its triumph this week and was set at a new record high value against the U.S. dollar today at the Shanghai Foreign Currency Trade session. It will be 10th straight gaining week for the yuan if it closes …
Great Britain pound continued its almost a week long rally against the currencies of Eurozone, U.S. and Japan, as the traders believe that the Bank of England will turn its head to inflation rather than the lack of the financial liquidity. There is now a three days of consequential growth …
According to the new research note by Richard Grace from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, it would be better to buy Australian dollar with euro in 2008 to earn from the interest rates difference. The EUR/AUD currency pair is proposed to substitute the AUD/JPY as the next …
Jean-Pierre Jouyet said that during the last G7 meeting (which was on February 10th in Tokyo), that there weren’t any signals from the U.S. representatives, that the States are going to try correcting the current …
The strongest African economy may soon lose its position at least so tells us its currency. South African rand appears to be one of the worst performing currency of 2008. Rand, being an indicator of the national economys health, was the top loser against the U.S. dollar this January with …
Today before the G7 meeting in Tokyo, Japan, Joaquin Almunia, who is currently European Commissioner for Economic & Financial Affairs, told the reports that the European currency is still above its fair value. Despite the euro has already stopped …
Today the Great Britain pound started to recover from the week-long losses against the other major currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, euro and the Japanese yen. Thats quite a surprise for the Forex traders, because yesterday BoE reduced …
Today two important interest rates decision were highly anticipated by the markets â the monetary policy decisions by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England (BoE). Before both of the banks released their monetary policy statements, the majority of the economic analysts were predicting the results. It was …
Last month South African Reserve Bank bought less foreign currency reserves than in December 2007, as one of the ways to help the rand avoid further weakening. Spurred by the exports of now expensive commodities South African national reserves continued to grow …