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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... wider oil-producing region. Meanwhile the euro narrowly lost ground against the dollar, thanks to a late rally by the greenback in European trading. Europe's main stock markets on Monday resumed the downward movement began at the end last week, with ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... traders into safer investments, with gold hitting a new record and the Swiss franc sitting near fresh highs against the greenback. Tokyo rose 0.89 per cent, or 93.64 points, to 10,586.02, while Hong Kong added 0.32 per cent, or 73.76 points, to 23,122.42. ...

US dollar fund taps retail ETF potential

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... dollar. BetaShares said the Aussie unit is now trading at roughly 40 per cent above its long-run average value against the greenback. This makes it an attractive buy for businesses wanting to hedge their exposure to potential US dollar appreciation against ...

Egypt not just another pyramid scheme

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... is however thought to be much less of a problem. This is not because the Egyptian pound has hardly moved against the greenback but because Egypt's role in these markets is neglible as the region's major petro-dollar fixed interest investor nations place ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... US-denominated assets. Look at Europe, the spread between Irish and German bonds is narrowing. But according to the Grinch, the greenback's rebound is indicative that investors are parking their money into the relative safety of the US currency because ...

China, Russia dump USD for bilateral trade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
China and Russia will cease using the US dollar as the basis of their intercountry trade in reaction to the greenback's instability and sliding relevance. "About trade settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies," Russian president Vladimir ...

QE2 still the main game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... ask the G-19 to do what he say not what he does. For what America have and does are policies designed to weakened the greenback. It has a huge trade deficit. Eco 101 dictates a weaker currency to balance this. It has ultra low interest rates. Fin 101 ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... 80 yen by the mid-90s, but what did it achieve? That's a more than 200 per cent appreciation in the yen against the greenback. It's now 2010 and Japan still has a trade surplus with America! How and why then could anyone expect that Plaza Accord II ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... speculation alone that QE2 is sailing sail in this troubled financial waters has weakened the US dollar - that is, it made the greenback more competitive. It fell to its lowest level since the start of the year against the euro, it traded at its April ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... of the year (ok, just the latter quarter of 2010) and the pride of the nation. It came oh so close to parity with the greenback. And parity is just an "i" removed from party. Yes Virginia, it's all over cyberspace... the Australian dollar is just a few ...