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Instos change mandate strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... mandates rather than region or country specific mandates," said Marianne Feeley, Mercer Asia Pacific head of research. The greenback's weakness against the local dollar meant currency was also back on the radar. "After several years of minimal activity ...

Money changes hands

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 FEB 2008
The surging Australian dollar due to the collapse in the greenback is quickening the pace of the US's economic fall and pointing to looming revisions in how we manage the global currency system. Illustrating the concerns, an online poll on the Fat Prophets ...

Iraqi economic growth to hit 7 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... two-digits. But it's now falling due to improved capacity. Meanwhile their currency is currently loosely pegged to the greenback on a "crawling" basis, meaning that even in Iraq you are not safe from sub-prime contagion. On the governance front, the ...

US-Aust rates spread widens to 250 bps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... at 91 cents and one year ago it was at 79 cents. Against the Euro however, the AUD has hardly moved, showing how the greenback is fast losing its lustre. It's getting so bad even Bollywood movie producers are now increasingly striking their worldwide ...

Jay-Z versus Greenspan

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
When rappers and supermodels choose Euros over the greenback, what does that say about the direction of the US economy? The world's richest model, Gisele BA1/4ndchen is apparently insisting that she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar ...

Sub-prime chewing up financials

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... Chinese officials over plans to shift some of the nation's massive stockpile of foreign-exchange reserves away from the greenback kicked the weak US dollar, which fell to its lowest in 30 years against a basket of six major currencies. The New York Board ...

Saddle up the greenback

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
... boosting risk-appetite and carry trades. The Aussie dollar's 23 year record high was not only fuelled the shrinking greenback, but also a growing interest rate differential between the US and Australia and continued strong commodity prices. While several ...

Dollar for dollar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
... China's booming demand on our commodities, we could soon see a dollar for dollar parity between the Aussie dollar and the greenback. Koukoulas also predicted our cash rates could easily hit 7 per cent next year.

Home sweet home

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
... which saw stronger than expected UK mortgage lending and house price figures that lifted the pound to 2.0280 against the greenback. Home grown home buyers, who are not planning to migrate to the US to snap up some real estate bargains, are apparently ...

Australia versus economic escargot

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
... up commodity price forecasts for 2008. With sustained robust global growth they expect the dollar to rise against the greenback as high as US92 cents by mid-2008 and US89 cents by the end of this year. "Rising commodity prices are consistent with this ...