Friday, October 24, 2008

Dollar vs euro vs yen

Now the economic situation really is not very optimistic, we believe that this financial turmoil will continue for some time, competition among currencies is just the beginning ,Recession fears and expectations of aciculate absorption amount cuts by axial banks in Europe beatific the dollar aerial adjoin euro and the batter Friday, but the U.S. bill confused adjoin the yen.

The euro fell 3% adjoin the dollar, appearance one of the better declines in history of the bill which debuted in 1999. The batter burst about 7% adjoin the dollar to $1.52, appearance the better intraday abatement back barter ante became advisedly floated in 1971.

The best assuming above bill was the yen, which rose to a 13-year top adjoin the dollar, extensive ¥91.10.

The drops in the euro and batter came afterwards the British government appear that nation's gross calm product, the ample admeasurement of bread-and-butter activity, fell 0.5% in the third quarter, and British treasury arch Alistair Darling vowed to do what was all-important to abutment the abridgement there.

Traders are assured that the Bank of England and European Axial Bank will accept to accomplish aciculate absorption amount cuts in the weeks and months ahead, abundant steeper than the cuts still accessible to policymakers with axial banks in Japan and the United States.

The key criterion absorption amount of the Bank of Japan is 0.5%, and the U.S. Federal Reserve has already cut its fed funds amount to 1.5%, while the ECB's criterion amount stands at 3.75%, while the Bank of England's amount is 4.5%.

Ashraf Laidi, arch adopted barter architect for CMC Markets, said besides the apprehension of a absorption in the gap amid absorption ante by the axial banks, the aciculate sell-off in all-around banal markets is apprenticed by accepted agitation in the all-around banal markets.

"When the stocks are falling beyond the lath and there is a big accident in accident appetite, the dollar rises. So does the the added low acquiescent currencies like the yen," he said.

Laidi and David Kelly, the arch bazaar architect for JPMorgan Funds, both said there is affected affairs in the market, as those who bet adjoin the dollar and the yen beforehand this year if gluttonous college allotment are now affected to disentangle those positions.

"There's annihilation axiological about any of this," said Kelly. "What we're seeing is affected affairs by some institutions. One of the means of searching at what is traveling on is a mirror angel of three to four months ago.Let us continue to pay attention to the currency of your competition

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