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FT.com - Currency Markets News and Data
Euro weakens as prices plunge
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Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:45:36 +0000
The euro fell to three-week lows against the dollar and sterling on Tuesday as plummeting eurozone inflation raised expectations that the European Central Bank was set to cut interest rates in the region.
Traders are betting on sharp declines in interbank lending rates over the next weeks and months
What the analysts think
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Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:31:11 +0000
Investment analysts Stephen Roach, Tim Bond, Mohamed El Erian, Ajay Kapur and Jim Paulsen with their views on the year ahead
How will other markets react?
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Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:59:22 +0000
Peter Garnham expects euro weakness, Chris Flood says the economic outlook will continue to drive commodities, while credit markets still price in the worst, says Paul J Davies
A fledgling return for risk
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Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:13:08 +0000
During recessions stocks typically bottom and start rallying ahead of economic recovery. Michael Mackenzie assesses the chances of a rally in 2009
The clear replacement for the US currency in 2009 is not that of another country but that ancient form of money: gold, writes David Hale
The Brown boom threatens to prove far more damaging than the Barber boom because it lasted so much longer, writes Peter Oppenheimer
Korean won faces further falls
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Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:01:12 +0000
Hopes of a rebound for South Korea's flagging currency are slim, write Christian Oliver and Kang Buseong
The yen soared and the pound was hammered in a year of exceptional volatility for international currency markets
A euro birthday note
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Thu, 1 Jan 2009 17:29:16 +0000
Dear 10-year-old single currency, now that you're grown you must pick your friends well – it's all part of growing up
Dollar to emerge from doldrums
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Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:31:44 +0000
The dollar should stabilise in 2009 as the world follows the US into recession, says Peter Garnham
Europeans see euro trumping dollar
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Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:53:34 +0000
The euro could overtake the dollar in global importance in the next five years, a large majority of continental Europeans believe, according to a poll days before Europe's monetary union reaches its 10th birthday
UK economic downturn accelerates
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Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:38:44 +0000
The recession in the UK economy in the three months to September was worse than previously thought, as official data showing Gross Domestic Product shrank 0.6% between second and third quarter underlined the speed of the downturn
The pound fell to a record low against the world's currencies and approached parity with the euro after Sir John Gieve, the outgoing deputy governor of the Bank of England, became the latest bank official to call for new tools to help avoid a repeat of the credit crunch
Weaker yen boosts Japanese shares
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Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:34:32 +0000
The Nikkei 225 average rose 1.6 per cent despite the release of data showing a big fall in exports in November as a weaker yen gave relief to the shares of exporters
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FT World News
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FT.com - World
Russian gas supplies via Ukraine to western Europe were completely shut off as Russia and Ukraine blamed each other for the deepening row over gas supplies that appears destined to provoke a serious energy crisis in Europe
The Israeli government has ordered its forces to stop their assault on Gaza for three hours a day to establish a so-called humanitarian corridor to give Palestinians access to food and medicine, the office of Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, said
Unemployment in Germany rose last month for the first time since February 2006, ending an unprecedented labour-market recovery in Europe's largest economy and casting renewed doubt over the country's prospects for this year
Barack Obama warned that this year's budget deficit could break through a record $1,000bn – more than double last year's shortfall – and remain above that level "for years to come"
Opec production cuts boost prices
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Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:32:39 +0000
Oil prices rose above $50 a barrel amid a growing belief that the cartel is succeeding in delivering cuts in production
Minutes provide further insight into the December policy meeting at which officials cut its target interest rate to virtually zero and laid out its strategy for unconventional easing
Eurozone inflation tumbles
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Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:00:47 +0000
Eurozone inflation dropped to its lowest level in more than two years as economic activity crumbled at the end of last year
The car industry has been offered its first formal meeting with the government since November, as ministers come under increasing pressure to offer a multi-billion pound support package
'Good enough' have become the watchwords of the British effort to tame Afghanistan's largest and most unruly province, which has claimed 130 foreign lives in the past two years
In a sign of deepening anxiety over Pakistan's response to the attacks, the US vice-president-elect is to visit the region this week as part of a Senate evaluation trip
Aso admits family mine used PoWs
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Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:35:21 +0000
The admission during a parliamentary exchange with a senior opposition party official is the latest in a long series of setbacks for the prime minister
China central bank sees GDP up 8%
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Tue, 6 Jan 2009 02:19:52 +0000
China's economy will probably grow by about 8% this year, the central bank's research bureau forecast on Tuesday, the latest in a string of relatively optimistic estimates
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that Pakistan was whipping up war hysteria, and that the Mumbai attacks must have had support from some of its nuclear-armed neighbour's official agencies
US tops innovation rankings
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Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:02:48 +0000
Despite its current economic woes, the United States remains the world's most innovative economy, with unrivalled business sophistication and competitiveness, according to a new study by INSEAD, the Paris-based business school
Indian business warns on 10m jobs
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Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:36:41 +0000
Labour intensive export industries could see the loss of up to 10m jobs, as many struggling companies shut shop amid plunging global demand and competition from Asian rivals
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