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Singapore: An Asian Tiger
Friday, June 18, 2010 - 5:23pm | 170Investors worrying about how currency fluctuations impact their investments, may want to take a look at Singapore's emerging market nation. The country’s currency uses a managed float against a basket of top trading partners' bank notes. This reduces large fluctuations in the Singaporean dollar...
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Are Risk Currencies An Indicator For Future Equities Trends
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 9:48pm | 393In the last year, the Aud-Usd Index has moved up in lockstep with the U.S. equity markets. Are the risk currencies a reliable predictor for the movement of the U.S. stock market? This week the U.S equities markets rebounded from a significant drop. So called financial gurus and financial...
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Learn to Preserve Your Forex Balance
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 7:22am | 185Yesterday’s US ISM index showed the first expansion signs since August 2008 by posting a value of 50.9. Consequently, the Dow Jones rose by over 100 points forcing the highly correlated Euro to highs of 1.4720 overnight - see chart. Earlier this morning, the UK Industrial production dropped...
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Harbingers of Doom Ride the Waves
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 9:21am | 175The last 24 hours have definitely been troubling for the Markets starting with yesterday’s Dow Jones loss of over 200 points. As a result, USD negative correlation with the Dow forced an EURUSD fall of over 150 pips - see Chart. Today’s released US NFP figures has just added further to the gloom by...
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Forex Trends Still Unclear
Monday, September 14, 2009 - 7:40am | 162Last week’s dramatic rise of the EUR/USD was fueled by increasing trading volumes although the fundamental reasons for doing so were more vague. As such, the EUR/USD dropped out of its new Bull channel overnight falling to 1.4530, see chart. Although the EURO fared well recently against the USD,...