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Economic round-up: Yearning for a yuan inspired Asian euro

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... considering a currency revaluation provoked by unmanageable money supply growth, a runaway stock market, swelling foreign exchange reserves and inflation. China's central bank last week allowed its currency to trade at a wider range, curbed bank lending ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... 0.8216/21. It traded between a low of $US0.8225 and a high of 0.8250 during the morning session. St George Bank foreign exchange trading manager Stuart Moore said China's Shanghai Index fell three per cent this morning, after another interest rate rise ...

Economic round-up: Beijing tugging the reins

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... currency today following Beijing's announcement on Friday of another interest rate increase and a widening of its foreign exchange trading band against the US$. China's central bank also raised interest rates for the second time in almost as many months ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... has announced that it will set up a large investment fund to better manage what is now about $US1 Trillion in foreign exchange reserves that have resulted from the export dollars earned over the last few years. The existing reserves which have largely ...

State Street ploughs $715m into online FX

State Street Corporation is to buy online foreign exchange trading platform Currenex for more than $715 million (US$564 million), increasing its foothold in the rapidly growing online foreign exchange sector. Foreign exchange is the largest and most-liquid ...

AUSTRAC's power to be checked

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
... the bill be reviewed. It has also recommended that the government look at the part of the bill that refers to foreign exchange transactions and travellers cheques as there is currently no threshold in the draft legislation on the value of transactions ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
... close of 0.7673/79. During the morning session it reached a low of $US0.7619 and a high of 0.7645. St George foreign exchange trading manager Stuart Moore said that after falling victim to US dollar strength overnight, the local currency had found support ...

Innovation is king: Russell

... can use their currency exposure not just to lower risk but to increase their returns. "We used to have our FX [foreign exchange] outsourced but we've taken that in-house and on average get around 10 to 15 basis points more because of that decision." ...

Currency managers pray for Cruise antics

The latest State Street Global Research weekly report noted that the market lull in currencies is making foreign exchange (FX) traders wish that the markets would 'jump the couch', or exhibit strange, volatile behaviour a la Tom Cruise. "A lack of volatility ...

New global head of currency for SSgA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
... innovative new currency models, both technical and fundamental, to manage risk and best capture the inefficiencies in foreign exchange markets." Prior to Citigroup Crownover spent time as a currency analyst and head of quantitative currency research ...