May 2012
Currency speculators on the CME turned to the dollar, yen and sterling, as concerns over Greece’s fiscal crisis and worries over global growth pushed investors toward safety.
May 2012
Poland's debt-management official waxes lyrical in an interview with Euromoney about how the country is riding out the eurozone storm, and the sovereign's debt issuance plans
May 2012
A €700 billion pool of maturing eurozone bank debt might be removed as a pillar of support for the euro if investors migrate into US credit markets.
May 2012
Offshore renminbi now $2.7 billion-a-day market; One hub for each time zone likely
May 2012
FX momentum strategies can yield “surprisingly” high excess returns, according to a new study due to be published in the Journal of Financial Economics, which adds more weight to the view that FX is an asset class in its own right.
May 2012
The Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) disposal of euros in the first quarter suggests it might abandon its attempts to rein in the franc, despite protestations to the contrary.
May 2012
Leading China expert Stephen Roach this week slammed US policy on China’s exchange rate, urging Washington to ‘re-focus’ its priorities or risk a protectionist backlash
May 2012
Former central bank policy committee member Yu Yongding told Emerging Markets in an interview that China should allow as much as a tenfold expansion of its current RMB trading band
April 2012
The prospective development shines a light on the growing role for third-party western asset managers to oversee a slice of China’s foreign exchange reserves
April 2012
The Bank of England’s (BoE) quantitative easing cycle is likely to have finished, say economists at Barclays and RBS, and a more hawkish BoE stance will provide support for the pound, despite GDP estimates thrusting the UK back into recession.
April 2012
Australian retail FX is booming, thanks to a healthy domestic market, the access it provides to fast-growing Asia and a friendly regulatory environment.
April 2012
Barclays predicts a set of policy initiatives by the Chinese authorities to liberalize the movement and trading of the renminbi, heralding full liberalization of the country’s capital account by 2015, according to Asiamoney.
April 2012
The euro is the most undervalued G10 currency on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis, according to Morgan Stanley.
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