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2009-04-12T15:16:00.000-07:00

IF YOU LIKE TRADING ON VOLATILITY, THERE IS nothing quite like the forex market.

It is open 24 hours a day, five days a week, and the players range from global banks to individuals. The daily volume is well over $3 trillion, according to the Bank for International Settlements. Despite its gargantuan size, the market isn't tightly regulated, and traders can use lots of leverage, which poses benefits and dangers. There is no central exchange; the market moves from one country to another. As Tokyo is closing, for example, London is opening.

Among the 25 firms we evaluated for our annual Best Online Broker review, published on March 16, E*Trade, Interactive Brokers, MB Trading, thinkorswim and TradeStation all come with some kind of built-in forex- trading system. OptionsXpress and TradeKing have enabled currency futures trading, and customers of SiebertNet can place forex trades through a live broker.

Last week, Zecco (www.zecco.com) announced it is partnering with the forex trading firm GAIN Capital (www.gaincapital.com) to launch Zecco Forex. "Today's volatile forex markets have created an attractive and complementary opportunity for our investors," said Jeroen Veth, CEO of Zecco Holdings. "Zecco Forex provides them access to another asset class where they can make trades independent of overall equity-market direction."

ZECCO'S FOREX OFFERING (www.zecco.com/forex) is a separate legal entity from its regular platform, so customers must sign up for a separate account. In time, however, the firm plans to integrate the two platforms into a single display, but that isn't likely to happen until next year, according to Zecco spokesman Gabriel Dalporto.

When you arrive at Zecco's forex site, you will find some educational content, as well as an opportunity to sign up for a practice account with $50,000 to start. The practice account lets you play with the analytical tools in the GAIN Capital platform and gives you a feel for how forex trading works. The account includes real-time quotes and charts, along with all the trading tools and information available to Zecco Forex customers. These tools include single and contingent order types, a real-time newsfeed and market commentary, plus daily and weekly research.

Should you decide to take the leap to trading with your own money, you can sign up for either a mini account, with a minimum deposit of $250, or a standard account, with $2,500. Those who deposit $10,000 or more can use a more advanced trading platform. The Java-based downloadable trading platform, ForexTrader Desktop, runs only on Windows, while the more advanced ForexTrader Web can be used by those with Macs and the Safari browser.

Most forex brokers don't charge explicit commissions; they tack on a fee to the price paid for the trade. Zecco's spreads are in line with what most of its rivals charge; a list can be found at http://www.zecco.com/forex/trade-pricing.html.

A key component of forex trading is leverage. Yes, stock and option traders can employ leverage by trading on margin. But their use of margin is minuscule, compared with that often found in foreign-exchange trades. You can utilize leverage of as much as 200 times the size of your account, so with just $500, you can hold $100,000 of currencies. With high leverage, however, comes much greater risk. It is imperative to stay on top of all your open transactions to avoid a huge margin call. Failure to use leverage prudently can be disastrous, as Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and thousands of no-down-payment home buyers found out.

Zecco Forex's offering lets customers trade in 37 currency pairs, though most of the action is in just a few currencies (primarily the U.S. dollar, Japanese yen, euro and British pound). The Zecco community is starting to see action in its newly launched Forex section, so you can discuss your strategies with other traders.

FIDELITY'S FIXED-INCOME AUTO-ROLL program (www.fidelity.com) went live at the end of March. It allows customers to automatically reinvest the principal of their matured new-issue U.S. Treasury bills, notes and FDIC-insured certificates of deposit into similar new-issue instruments. The goal is to make it easier for customers to remain fully invested and leave less cash on the sidelines.

The Auto Roll Program's methodology takes into consideration the original instrument's security type, size, term to maturity and coupon frequency when locating a new purchase. Customers can verify that the pending trade matches their objectives through a Fidelity e-mail alert. If they decide not to reinvest, there is an option to cancel the trade.

Auto Roll is available for new-issue Treasuries and certificates of deposit with a term to maturity of five years or less. If a Treasury or CD that matches the original investment isn't found, Fidelity will alert the customer and move the principal of the mature instrument to the default cash position in his or her brokerage account.

NOTES ON SWITCHING ACCOUNTS: In response to our March 23 "How To Switch Brokers Painlessly" column, Steve Sanders, vice president at Interactive Brokers (www.interactivebrokers.com), tells us that there is a sister system to the Automated Customer-Account Transfer System, or ACAT, used by many firms. Called the Currency and Banking Retrieval System, it passes lot and cost-basis information from one broker to another. Adds Sanders: "It is up to the discretion of the broker to use this system. [Interactive Brokers] makes full use of this system, whenever the ACAT transfer broker also makes use of this system."

China's forex reserves rise, but growth slows

2009-04-12T15:13:00.000-07:00

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- China's foreign exchange reserves rose 16% in the first quarter from a year ago, but the pace from December slowed, media reports quoting central bank statistics said Saturday.

The country's foreign currency balances, the largest in the world, rose to $1.9537 trillion at the end of March, according to statistics released by the People's Bank of China on its Web site.

The increase was $272 billion higher than March 2008 and $7.7 billion more than in December. The gain from the end of last year was smaller than previous quarterly gains and likely reflected the global financial crisis' hit to exports, analysts said. In the September-December period, reserves increased by $40.4 billion.

China sparked a minor furor in March when officials suggested the U.S. dollar be replaced as an international reserve currency.

The country, the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasurys, has also said it's worried about the safety of its holdings as the U.S. pursues uncharted monetary policies to jumpstart the U.S. economy.

FOREX-Dollar gains vs yen, buoyed by rally in stocks

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* Dollar extends stocks-led gains vs yen, euro

* Many major financial centres shut for Easter weekend

TOKYO, April 10 (Reuters) - The dollar rose against the yen on Friday, buoyed by a rally in U.S. stocks following positive earnings guidance from U.S. bank Wells Fargo (WFC.N), although trade was likely to be thin with many major centres shut for holidays.

Wall Street indexes rose between 3 and 4 percent on Thursday after Wells Fargo said it expected to report a record quarterly profit in an encouraging sign for the troubled banking sector, which has been at the heart of the global financial crisis.[.N]

The greenback hit its highest in six months against the Japanese currency early in the week but then faced a bout of profit-taking on its gains ahead of the long weekend and the onset of quarterly earnings, which tipped it off the peak.

"There's been position-squaring ahead of the Easter holidays and that has been capping dollar/yen and the yen crosses," said Masafumi Yamamoto, head of FX strategy Japan at Royal Bank of Scotland.

"Today the market tried to follow equities."

The dollar rose 0.2 percent to 100.61 yen after climbing 0.8 percent on Thursday. It peaked at 101.45 yen earlier in the week.

The euro eased 0.1 percent to 131.94 yen and lost 0.4 percent to $1.3112.

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said the central bank still had some leeway to cut its main interest rate from its record low of 1.25 percent. [ID:nL9724592].

He repeated it would lay out plans for possible unconventional monetary policy measures at its next meeting on May 7 but did not give any details.

The market has been watching for signs the ECB will take unconventional steps to improve credit availability after similar moves by the Federal Reserve and other major central banks.

Fed policy makers warned the U.S. economy would skid more deeply into recession in the coming months but warned it was time to start planning how to wind down spending to avert an inflationary surge. [ID:nN09302273].

The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for unemployment benefit fell last week but was still at levels indicating contraction in the labour market has yet to hit bottom. [ID:nN09264963]. (Reporting by Charlotte Cooper; Editing by Michael Watson)

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Symbol	Bid	Ask	Time
Nasdaq 100	1334.73	1334.77	18:08
S&P 500 Indx	847.25	847.75	18:08
USD / JPY	100.36	100.39	18:06
Crude Oil	51.86	51.90	18:08
Gold (Spot)	882.83	883.08	18:08
GBP / USD	1.4641	1.4644	18:08
EUR / USD	1.3177	1.3179	18:08

UPDATE 1-Somali pirates vow revenge over comrades' killings

2009-04-12T15:07:00.002-07:00

By Abdiqani Hassan

BOSASSO, Somalia, April 12 (Reuters) - Somali pirates threatened revenge on Sunday after two separate hostage-rescue raids by foreign forces killed at least five comrades, raising fears of future bloodshed on the high seas.

The latest raid by U.S. forces on Sunday that saved an American hostage and one by France last week have upped the stakes in shipping lanes off the anarchic Horn of Africa nation where buccaneers have defied foreign naval patrols.

'The French and the Americans will regret starting this killing. We do not kill, but take only ransom. We shall do something to anyone we see as French or American from now,' Hussein, a pirate, told Reuters by satellite phone.

'We cannot know how or whether our friends on the lifeboat died, but this will not stop us from hijacking,' he said.

Sea gangs generally treat their captives well, hoping to fetch top dollar in ransoms.

The worst violence has been an occasional beating.

'We shall revenge,' said another pirate, Aden, in Eyl village, a pirate lair on Somalia's eastern coast.

Some fear the U.S. and French operations may make the modern-day pirates more like their more fearsome forbearers.

'The pirates will know from now that anything can happen. The French are doing this, the Americans are doing it. Things will be more violent from now on,' said Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya-based East African Seafarers Assistance Programme.

'This is a big wake-up to the pirates. It raises the stakes.'

PIRACY ESCALATION

Piracy is lucrative business in Somalia, where gangs have earned millions of dollars in ransoms, splashing it on wives, houses, cars and fancy goods.

After a wane in business early this year, pirates have struck back. They presently hold more than a dozen vessels with about 260 hostages, of whom about 100 are Filipino.

Eyl, Haradheere and other pirate havens along the Indian Ocean coastline have come back to life with the windfall of successful operations.

Somalia's anarchy -- whose 18 years of civil war have given sea gangs assault rifles, grenade launchers and little central control -- has long been ignored by world powers.

The saga over the capture of cargo ship captain Richard Phillips has thrown international attention on the long-running piracy phenomenon that has hiked up insurance costs on strategic waterways where warships now patrol.

'Killing three out of thousands of pirates will only escalate piracy,' said Sheikh Abdullahi Sheikh Abu Yusuf, spokesman of the moderate Islamist group Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca.

(Additional reporting by Andrew Cawthorne in Nairobi and Abdi Sheikh and Abdi Guled in Mogadishu; Writing by Jack Kimball; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Jon Boyle) (For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://af.reuters.com/) Keywords: SOMALIA PIRACY/PIRATES

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FACTBOX-Five facts about freed U.S. ship captain

2009-04-12T15:07:00.001-07:00

April 11 (Reuters) - American ship captain Richard Phillips was rescued by the U.S. Navy on Sunday from the hands of Somali pirates who had held him hostage since trying to hijack his container vessel five days ago in the Indian Ocean.

Following are five facts about the merchant seaman:

* Phillips, aged 53, grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts, where his father coached high school basketball. He lives in Underhill, in rural Vermont.

* Married since 1987 to Andrea Coggio, an emergency room nurse he met in Boston. They have two college-age children, Mariah and Danny.

* Drove a cab in Boston to pay his way through college at the University of Massachusetts and later at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, where he graduated in 1979.

* Phillips played the saxophone in his high school band, and still plays the instrument from time to time. He listens to the blues. His favorite: blues singer Taj Mahal.

* Plays pickup basketball at the local YMCA, and golfs with a group of retirees. Supports Boston sports teams, particularly the Celtics basketball team.

Source: The New York Times.

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RPT-Q&A-Who are the Somali pirates?

2009-04-12T15:05:00.000-07:00

By Andrew Cawthorne

NAIROBI, April 12 (Reuters) - It took the capture and rescue five days later of an American hostage to draw world attention back to the long-running phenomenon of Somali piracy.

The pirates also grabbed headlines last year for the world's largest sea hijack -- a Saudi supertanker carrying oil worth $100 million -- and the seizure of a Ukrainian ship with a huge military cargo including 33 tanks.

Away from the international limelight, the gangs have been striking regularly for years. After the rescue of U.S. ship captain Richard Phillips, they still hold about 260 hostages, including nearly 100 Filipinos, on 17 captured vessels.

So who are these modern-day buccaneers?

HOW DID THEY START?

* When warlords toppled former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia collapsed into anarchy. That led to a wave of illegal fishing, plus dumping of toxic and industrial waste, in Somali waters by foreign fleets from Europe and Asia.

* Towards the end of the decade, local fishermen and militia formed groups with names like the 'Somali Coastguards' and the 'National Volunteer Coastguards', to drive away or apprehend the vessels from South Korea, Italy, Spain, Thailand and elsewhere.

* Seeing how easy it was to capture ships, those groups metamorphosed this decade into old-fashioned pirate gangs, becoming ever more sophisticated in methods and bold in range.

HOW DO THEY OPERATE?

* In the early days, pirates with a few guns used fishing boats to approach vessels, and then simply tried to scramble on board or throw up ropes.

* As they gained money from ransoms, plus experience, they bought speedboats, tracking devices and more powerful weapons. Typically these days, a 'mother ship' first spots a target, and a couple of speedboats are then launched to approach the vessel on either side and board with hooks and ladders.

* Pirates sometimes fire shots over the bow to scare sailors. Often, boats will try defensive action like zigzagging in the sea or even spraying the pirates with water from high pressure hoses. Most vessels, however, are unarmed, in keeping with international maritime practice, so sailors normally surrender quickly once the pirates are on deck.

* Hostages say they are generally well treated, with the pirates viewing them as common men caught up in a wider game: the pursuit of million-dollar ransoms from owners. Some have described the pirates slaughtering and roasting goats on board to feed them, and passing round satellite phones to let them call loved ones back home.

HOW MANY ARE THERE?

* Although traditional elders disapprove and condemn them as 'immoral', the number of pirates is growing, with hundreds now working in a network of gangs.

* Many poor and unemployed young Somalis see piracy as a dazzling alternative to their hard lives, given the quick money to be made. Somalis say they are lining up to go to sea.

* The gangs are based in villages and small towns along Somalia's long coast, in lairs like Eyl, Hobyo and Haradheere.

HOW MUCH MONEY ARE THEY MAKING?

* Ship owners have been paying increasingly high ransoms with regularity. Earlier this year, the pirates made more than $6 million from the negotiated release of the Saudi supertanker the Sirius Star and the Ukrainian vessel the MV Faina.

* Ransoms during 2008, when 42 vessels were captured, ranged from $500,000 to $2 million, experts say.

* The pirates reinvest some of their money in better equipment and boats. They also spend plenty of it on flashy living, taking new wives, building palatial villas and buying 4x4 vehicles. Some get involved in smuggling.

* Financiers and masterminds, who are generally older than the young pirates, take a large cut of ransoms.

* Local rulers also take a share to allow the pirates to operate unchecked out of their territories.

WHAT CAN THE WORLD DO?

* All analysts agree that the best way to suppress piracy off Somalia is to achieve stability onshore, where civil conflict has raged for the last 18 years.

* Fourteen attempts to restore central government have failed since 1991, and a 15th one is in its infancy. The United Nations and others are hopeful that the administration of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, set up earlier this year, is the best chance in recent times of bringing peace to Somalia.

* Ahmed is a moderate Islamist with widespread support inside and outside Somalia, but he faces an insurgency by pro-al Qaeda militant Islamists and his government really controls little but a few parts of the capital Mogadishu.

* At sea, more than a dozen countries have provided ships for a flotilla of naval patrols off Somalia since the end of 2008. That brought an initial dip in the number of attacks, especially in the Gulf of Aden, where the patrols were concentrated. But the ever more brazen pirates have simply moved their operations further out into the Indian Ocean.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES?

* Though world attention has been focused on Phillips the American and his rescue, Somali piracy causes enormous hardship and stress for the hundreds of hostages still caught up in it, mainly from the Third World. Released captives say they live in constant fear of being killed by the pirates or during a rescue attempt, and worry about wives and children far away. Some said pirates beat them, though in general their treatment is humane.

* Some shippers have decided to incur the extra cost and time of sending cargoes round South Africa instead of through the Gulf of Aden into the Suez Canal en route to Europe.

* Insurance premiums have risen for the whole industry.

* Somalia has suddenly come into President Barack Obama's foreign policy in-tray. Americans will shudder at the memory of a disastrous U.S. intervention in the early 1990s, including the 1993 'Black Hawk Down' battle when 18 U.S. servicemen were killed.

(Editing by Daniel Wallis)

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WRAPUP 10-U.S. Navy rescues captain, kills Somali pirates

2009-04-12T15:04:00.000-07:00

By Abdi Sheikh and Abdi Guled

MOGADISHU, April 12 (Reuters) - U.S. naval forces rescued cargo ship captain Richard Phillips from captivity at the hands of Somali pirates in a dramatic shootout that ended a five-day standoff, the U.S. Navy said on Sunday.

Phillips' life was in danger when naval forces shot the pirates, freeing him unharmed and killing three of four pirates who had held him hostage on a lifeboat after trying to seize his vessel, the navy said. The fourth pirate was in custody.

'I can tell you that he is free and that he is safe,' Navy Lieutenant Commander John Daniels said.

The U.S. Navy believed that Phillips, who tried to escape on Friday, faced imminent danger amid tense hostage talks with his captors and deteriorating sea conditions.

'They were pointing the AK-47s at the captain,' Vice Adm. William Gortney, head of the U.S. Naval Central Command, said in a Pentagon briefing from Bahrain.

President Barack Obama had granted the Pentagon's request for standing authority to use appropriate force to save the life of the captain, he said.

The U.S. Navy 5th Fleet in Bahrain said the rescue took place at 12:19 p.m. EDT (1619 GMT) and the lifeboat had drifted to about 20 miles (32 km) from lawless Somalia's coast.

Phillips, captain of the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama container ship, had contacted his family, received a routine medical evaluation, and was resting comfortably aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer.

'We are all absolutely thrilled to learn that Richard is safe and will be reunited with his family,' Maersk Line chief executive John Reinhart said in a statement.

CNN showed a photo of a smiling Phillips after his rescue.

Phillips' crew let off flares, hoisted an American flag and jumped for joy at news of their captain's rescue.

'We are very happy. He's a hero,' one crew member of the Maersk Alabama shouted at journalists amid raucous celebrations on the deck of the vessel, docked in Kenya's Mombasa port.

Phillips, 53, was the first American taken captive by Somali pirate gangs who have marauded in the busy Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean shipping lanes for years.

Three U.S. warships had been watching the situation.

PIRATES VOW REVENGE

Obama, spared from having another thorny foreign policy crisis added to his troubles with the U.S. economic meltdown and Afghanistan, welcomed the rescue, praised the U.S. military and vowed to curb rampant piracy.

'To achieve that goal, we must continue to work with our partners to prevent future attacks, be prepared to interdict acts of piracy and ensure that those who commit acts of piracy are held accountable for their crimes,' he said in a statement.

Somali pirates were quick to vow revenge over Sunday's shooting, as well as a French military assault to rescue a yacht on Friday.

The Maersk Alabama, a container ship carrying food aid for Somalis, was attacked far out in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday, but its 20 American crew apparently fought off the pirates and regained control.

Phillips volunteered to go with the pirates in a Maersk Alabama lifeboat in exchange for the crew, said Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.

'The actions of Captain Phillips and the civilian mariners of Maersk-Alabama were heroic. They fought back to regain control of their ship, and Captain Phillips selflessly put his life in the hands of these armed criminals in order to protect his crew,' he said in a statement.

Joseph Murphy, whose son, Shane, was Phillips's second in command and took over the Alabama after pirates left with Phillips, said in a statement read by CNN, 'Our prayers have been answered on this Easter Sunday.'

'My son and our family will forever be indebted to Capt. Phillips for his bravery. If not for his incredible personal sacrifice, this kidnapping -- an act of terror -- could have turned out much worse,' said Murphy.

'The captain is a hero,' one crew member shouted from the 17,000-ton ship as it docked in Kenya's Mombasa port under darkness on Saturday. 'He saved our lives by giving himself up.'

LEGAL SYSTEM NEEDED

Experts had expected a quick end to the standoff, but the pirates held out for both a ransom and safe passage home. Friends told Reuters the gang wanted $2 million.

The saga has drawn world attention to the long-running piracy phenomenon off Somalia that has hiked shipping insurance costs and disrupted international trade.

Andrew Mwangura, coordinator of Mombasa-based East African Seafarers Assistance Program, said the rescue would change the stakes in future pirate attacks.

'This is a big wake-up to the pirates. It raises the stakes. Now they may be more violent, like the pirates of old,' he said.

Pirates have generally treated hostages well, sometimes roasting goat meat for them and even passing phones round so they can call loved ones. The worst violence reported has been the occasional beating and no hostages are known to have been killed by pirates.

The drama underscored a need for new international agreements to allow other countries to protect shipments in Somali waters and try pirates, U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen told U.S. net work ABC's 'This Week'.

The U.S. Justice Department said in a statement it 'will be reviewing the evidence and other issues to determine whether to seek prosecution in the United States.'

(Additional reporting by David Morgan and Randall Mikkelsen in Washington, Abdi Sheikh and Ibrahim Mohamed in Mogadishu, Jack Kimball, Celestine Achieng and Njuwa Maina in Mombasa, Andrew Cawthorne and Abdiaziz Hassan in Nairobi; Writing by Paul Eckert; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

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UPDATE 1-U.S. acted after pirates aimed at ship captain

2009-04-12T15:03:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama authorized killing the Somali pirates holding U.S. cargo ship captain Richard Phillips, and a commander acted upon concluding the pirates were about to kill the hostage, a U.S. Navy official said on Sunday.

'They were pointing the AK-47s at the captain,' Vice Adm. William Gortney, head of the U.S. Naval Central Command, said in a Pentagon briefing from Bahrain.

Gortney also said Washington had rejected ransom negotiations with the pirates. 'The United States government's policy is to not negotiate,' he said.

But he said military members had been in hostage talks with the pirate crew, and the talks grew 'heated' before the commander on the scene ordered the shots that killed three pirates holding Phillips in a lifeboat.

'If he was not in imminent danger, they were not supposed to take this sort of action, they were supposed to let the negotiation process work it out,' Gortney said.

'The on-scene commander took it as the captain was in imminent danger and then made that decision (to kill the pirates), and he had the authorities to make that decision, and he had seconds to make that decision.'

'Our authorities came directly from the president. And the number one authority for incidents, if we were going to respond, was if the captain's life was in immediate danger,' Gortney said.

The U.S. Justice Department, which is reviewing how to prosecute the lone pirate taken into custody, wants to take him to Kenya, which recently signed a piracy prosecution deal with Washington, Gortney said. It was also possible the pirate could be taken to the United States, he said.

(Reporting by Randall Mikkelsen; Editing by Eric Walsh) Keywords: SOMALIA PIRACY/MILITARY

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AB InBev considering Rolling Rock sale

2009-04-12T15:02:00.000-07:00

NEW YORK, April 12 (Reuters) - Anheuser-Busch InBev , the world's largest brewer, is considering selling its Rolling Rock brand, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.

InBev sold Anheuser-Busch the iconic Rolling Rock brand for $82 million in May 2006 and reacquired it when it bought Anheuser-Busch for about $52 billion last year.

The Journal, citing one person familiar with the matter, said AB InBev looked at bids for the brand earlier this year using investment bank Lazard Ltd., but wasn't satisfied with the offers.

The paper said the brewer remains interested in selling Rolling Rock.

AB InBev spokeswoman Marianne Amssoms declined to comment

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China end-March FX reserves hit $1.9537 trln -PBOC

2009-04-12T15:01:00.000-07:00

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, April 11 (Reuters) - China's foreign

exchange reserves, the world's largest, rose by about $7.7

billion in the first quarter to $1.9537 trillion at the end of

March, the central bank said on Saturday.

The figure was slightly below the median forecast of $1.955

trillion in a Reuters poll of 10 economists.

For all of 2008, the foreign exchange reserves rose by $417.8

billion, compared with increases of $461.9 billion in 2007,

$247.3 billion in 2006 and $209 billion in 2005.

China's reserves have ballooned as the central bank, in order

to hold down the yuan, has bought most of the dollars generated

by a large trade surplus, foreign direct investment and periodic

inflows of speculative capital.

The inflows have slowed in recent quarters as the global

economic slowdown has hit trade and investment flows.

Foreign exchange reserves (in billions of dollars, period

ending):

Mar09 Dec08 Sep08 Jun08 Mar08 Dec07 Sep07

1,953.7 1,946.0 1,905.6 1,808.8 1,682.2 1,528.2 1,433.6

(Reporting by Zhou Xin and Edmund Klamann; Editing by Tomasz

Janowski)

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Indonesian stocks seen edging up after election

2009-04-12T15:00:00.000-07:00

JAKARTA, April 12 (Reuters) - Indonesian stocks may rise slightly and the rupiah is likely to trade at current levels when markets open on Monday, analysts said, after the president's party led with one fifth of the votes in last week's election.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democrat Party raised its share to 20.5 percent, from 7.5 percent in 2004, quick count and early official results showed.

The results were in line with market expectations but below the level indicated by some recent opinion polls, reducing hopes that Yudhoyono would be able to push ahead with sweeping reforms of the judiciary, civil service and other institutions considered key to attracting more foreign investment.

Analysts said the results meant 'business as usual', with Yudhoyono continuing his existing policies of tackling graft and addressing economic growth, but that he would find it harder to form a strong cabinet to push tough reforms through parliament.

'The elections have been largely peaceful and smooth. This should help bolster sentiment in the stock market,' said Tjandra Lienandjaya, an analyst at BNP Paribas.

Yudhoyono said last week he would start coalition talks with other parties ahead of presidential elections in July, which he is tipped to win. Several other parties are also in talks about forming rival blocs to field presidential candidates.

For a scenarios on possible coalition outcomes, click on

Indonesia's benchmark stock index, which lost about half its value last year, has risen 8 percent this year to end at 1,465.75 on Wednesday.

The financial markets were shut for holidays on Thursday and Friday. The rupiah currency also firmed ahead of the election to around 11,300 per dollar.

Favourable external factors such as a sharp rise in U.S. stocks on Thursday, before the holiday weekend, as well as strong gains in the rupiah and expectations of a further easing in inflation should help the bond market, which has rallied in the past month, analysts said.

'Foreign investors are likely to continue coming in. They have started coming in for about a month,' said Francis Tjahjo Soetopo, Jakarta-based debt analyst at Deutsche Bank, adding that bond prices would therefore probably remain firm.

'If the rupiah keeps strengthening, there will be more demand for bonds as well as stocks,' he said.

Soetopo said he expected the one-year bond yield could head lower to 8 percent from 9 to 9.3 percent currently, pushing mid- and longer-term yields as well.

Economists noted that the government has already raised a significant portion of this year's borrowing requirement, which means investors are less concerned about Indonesia's ability to fund its budget deficit.

THey said that investors would see the Democrat Party's performance as providing continuity in policy, provided the early results proved accurate.

'It means the current policy can be maintained, and those certainties will prompt a positive reaction,' said Djoko Retnadi, an economist at Bank BRI.

(Reporting by Gde Anugrah Arka and Sonya Angraini in Jakarta; Writing by Sara Webb; Editing by Kazunori Takada)

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Zimbabwe shelves own currency for a year-paper

2009-04-12T14:57:00.000-07:00

HARARE, April 12 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe will not use its own local currency for at least a year, a state newspaper reported on Sunday, while it tries to repair an economy which critics say was destroyed by President Robert Mugabe.

The southern African state has allowed the use of multiple foreign currencies since January to stem hyperinflation which had rocketed to over 230 million percent and left the Zimbabwe dollar almost worthless.

The state-controlled Sunday Mail said the unity government of Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai decided the Zimbabwe dollar should only be reintroduced when industrial output reaches about 60 percent of capacity from the current 20 percent average.

'The Zimbabwe dollar will be out for at least a year. We resolved that there will be no immediate plans to (re)introduce the money because there is nothing to support and hold its value,' the newspaper quoted Economic Planning and Development Minister Elton Mangoma as saying.

'Our focus is to first ensure that we have a vibrant industry. If we try to reintroduce the local currency now, it will face the same fate of being wiped out of its value within weeks.'

On Thursday, Zimbabwe's Central Statistical Office (CSO) said consumer prices fell for a third straight month in March after the government abandoned its worthless currency.

The CSO said inflation stood at -3.0 percent month-on-month in March compared with -3.1 percent in February, as food prices fell.

Critics say Mugabe, who has led Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, has destroyed one of Africa's most promising economies through controversial policies, including the seizure of white-owned commercial farms for redistribution to inexperienced black farmers.

Mugabe, 85, denies the charge and says the economy has been sabotaged by enemies opposed to his nationalist policies.

Zimbabwe is seeking an urgent cash injection of $2 billion to stabilise an economy suffering unemployment above 90 percent and a severe shortage of foreign currency.

Western donors have held back aid, demanding the unity government in which Tsvangirai is the prime minister undertakes political and other reforms.

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Ideal World Forex Announces New Forex Resources Page

2009-04-12T14:56:00.000-07:00

Ideal World Forex, a full service foreign exchange broker, announces the completion of a new and robust Forex Resources page to the company’s newly launched website. With the recent opening of the company’s website, Ideal World Forex has created a wonderfully helpful Forex Resources page whereby visitors can access some of the Forex industry’s most content rich websites related to numerous germane topics. Ideal World Forex has made their new website a “one stop shop” for all the needs of any Forex trader old or new. The “Forex Resources” page http://www.idealworldforex.com/forexresources.php has become a center for Forex traders to access all the news, information, advice and support they need and desire both quickly and easily.

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Ideal World Forex is excited about the huge growth potential of the Forex and CFD (contracts for difference) market. With the addition of the new demo account, two new languages (Chinese and Indonesian) and a new Forex Resources page, Ideal World Forex believes it offers some of the industry’s most valuable services. Ideal World Forex makes it convenient for both beginners and experts to explore, develop and continue learning about the remarkable investment landscape of the Forex industry. There are many advantages to trading with Ideal World Forex. Traders can rest assured they are working with one of the most qualified, well prepared and adept groups in the Forex market.

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WORLD FOREX: Euro Hits 3-Week Low In Thin Holiday Trade

2009-04-12T14:51:00.000-07:00

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--In thin holiday trading, the euro extended a week-long decline overnight Friday to more than a three-week low against the dollar.

The common currency has now totally unwound its gains versus the dollar in the wake of the Federal Reserve's mid-March decision to purchase longer-term Treasury notes and bonds. Profit-taking and positioning ahead of the Easter break was behind much of the euro's slide this week.

The dollar had also been supported by a report Thursday that showed the U.S. trade gap shrank to its narrowest deficit in nearly a decade and on a strong first-quarter earnings

Building Blocks Strategy

2009-04-07T14:20:00.000-07:00

Building Blocks Strategy

Options are an extremely versatile investment tool. From speculation to hedging, they can be used by a variety of investors seeking more control over their financial assets.

This list reflects Building Blocks shipped with VOptions:

-Long Call

-Short Call

-Long Put

-Short Put

Long Call

Description

Call buying is a strategy used if the investor thinks that XYZ will advance in price. It is important, given the risk, that the investor have a clear idea about where the stock is going and when. Simply thinking XYZ is a "great company that is sure to go up" is not enough. A Call purchase based on such vague notions is likely to cause frustration as losses mount when the advance fails to materialize.

Buying Calls: Why?

For the most part, there are two types of Call buyers:

the bullish speculators wanting to take advantage of the leverage options can offer, and
the investor buying a Call as a substitute for buying the stock.

Risk/Reward Characteristics

Break-even Point: At expiration, the break-even poi

nt (B.E.) is equal to the strike price of the Call option plus the Call option's premium. Before expiration, the break-even point is lower.

Profit: Profits are unlimited as long as the underline

g stock continues in advance.

Loss: Losses are limited to the premium paid for the option. At expiration, for every point XYZ is above the strike price, the Call option increases an additiona

l point in value.

Time Decay: A call option's premium consists of both intrinsic value (if any) plus time value. As time passes, the time value portion of the Call erodes (i.e., decays). At expiration, the Call's value will equal its intrinsic value.

Changes in implied Volatility: Changes in the option's implied volatility has an effect on the "time value" portion of an option's premium. Thus, a change in

the option's implied volatility has the same effect as changing (+/-) the number of days remaining until the option's expiration.

Short Call

Description

The investor writing Call options should firmly believe that XYZ is not going up! XYZ doesn't have to go down, but it most definitely cannot go up. This is because the strategy's break-even point at expiration is a certain distance above the then current stock price. Thus, depending on the option's strike price, writing Call options can be a viewed as a neutral to bearish strategy.

Writing Calls: Why?

Writing uncovered ("naked") Call options is a strategy with very high risk for a small potential return. Given this obvious imbalance, why would a prudent investor wishing to preserve and build his or her capital write Calls?

Unaware of less risky "bearish" strategies.
Strongly believes XYZ "can't go any higher," and therefore, blind to the potential risks.
Time Decay.

Risk/Reward Characteristics

Break-even Point: At expiration, the break-even point (B.E.) is equal to the strike price of the Call option plus the Call option's premium. Before expiration, the break-even point is lower.

Profit: Profits are limited no matter how large the decline in XYZ.

Loss: Losses are unlimited!!

Time Decay: A Call option's premium consists of both intrinsic value (if any) plus time value. As time passes, the time value portion of the Call erodes (i.e

., decays). At expiration, the Call's value will equal its intrinsic value.

Changes in implied Volatility: Changes in the option's implied volatility has an effect on the "time value" portion of an option's premium.

Long Put

Description

Put buying is a strategy used if the investor thinks that XYZ will decline in price. It is often used in place of a short sale in XYZ stock. The speculative Put buyer looks for leverage, emphasizing the number of options he or she can purchase. The "insurance" Put buyer looks to protect a long position in the stock for a period of time covered by the option.

Put Purchase vs. Short Sale:

Prior to exchange-listed options, the average investor only had one choice if he or she wanted to put a bearish opinion into action - sell XYZ short. Now, with Put options, the investor can establish a bearish position while controlling the trade-offs between the position's risk and reward. Along with the difference in the profit and loss profiles, there are other non-dollar specific benefits as well.

Risk/Reward Characteristics

Break-even Point: At expiration, the break-even point is equal to the strike price of the Put option minus the Put option's premium. Before expiration, the break-even point is higher.

Profit: Profits are unlimited as long as the underlying stock continues to decline.

Loss: Losses are limited to the premium paid for the option.

Time Decay: Negative. A Put option's premium consists of both intrinsic value (if any) plus time value. As time passes, the time value portion of the Put erode

s (i.e., decays). At expiration, the Put's value will equal its intrinsic value.

Changes in implied Volatility: Changes in the option's implied volatility has an effect on the "time value" portion of an option's premium. Thus, a change in the option's implied volatility has the same effect as changing the number of days remaining until the option's expiration.

Short Put

ICAP aims to cut bank risks with new FX venture

2009-04-07T13:46:00.000-07:00

The broker has teamed up with CLS Group, a specialist in foreign exchange settlement services, to create the service which has already secured the heavyweight backing of Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and Royal Bank of Scotland.

The foreign exchange market has been identified as an area of concern by global regulators scrutinizing the risks taken by banks.

In recent years, the volumes in the foreign exchange market have soared as a result of participation by hedge funds, algorithmic traders, retail and institutional market investors. Many of these are prime brokerage clients of the banks. There are an estimated two million individual foreign exchange trades between the banks every day, together worth an estimated $3.2 trillion. Regulators have criticised the settlement system for being overburdened and too outdated to deal with the expanding market.

The new joint venture, which will be 51pc owned by CLS and 49pc by Icap, will target smaller trades and aggregate them into groups to radically reduce risks. The companies both said they expect the costs of settlement to be "significantly reduced".

Mark Yallop, Icap's chief operating officer, said: "We have a real opportunity to strengthen the foreign exchange market infrastructure with this joint venture with CLS. By bringing together the leading players in the industry and a sound technology platform, we can reduce risk and increase industry capacity to create the opportunity for very material further growth."

2009-04-07T13:26:00.000-07:00

Forex Strategy Outlook: US Dollar Downtrend Boosts Performance

2009-04-07T13:22:00.000-07:00

Written by David Rodriguez, Quantitative Strategist

US Dollar depreciation has left our forex trading signals at an advantage through recent weeks, leading to clear outperformance in key trading strategies. Indeed, the Euro and other key currencies have reached multi-month highs against their US counterpart. Trend-following systems aggressively sold the US dollar into early declines and have clearly benefited from its continued downtrend.

Whether or not the USD continues to decline will be a key factor in whether Momentum-based trading signals can remain profitable. The biggest danger remains that currencies return to wide trading ranges—putting Momentum and Breakout systems at clear risk.

Forex Trading Automated Systems Outlook

DailyFX+ System Trading Signals – Momentum2, Breakout2, and Range1 trading strategies remain as our top performers in the past 60 days of trade. We are nonetheless mindful that that Momentum2 and Breakout2 trades may underperform if currencies begin trading within wide ranges. Specifically, a US dollar recovery could put key medium to long-term trading signals at risk.

It will nonetheless be important to monitor US Dollar pairs through the near term and manage our trading biases accordingly. For the moment, we favor Momentum2 trading signals. Yet this could easily change if we see signs of rangebound markets, and we will update our Forex Trading Strategy Outlook accordingly.

DailyFX+ Forex Market Conditions Outlook

NOTE: Data has once again been changed. Due to the ineffectiveness of the 30-day horizon, we are returning to the original 90-day time horizon.

Definitions

Volatility Percentile – The higher the number, the more likely we are to see strong movements in price. This number tells us where current implied volatility levels stand in relation to the past 30 days of trading. We have found that implied volatilities tend to remain very high or very low for extended periods of time. As such, it is helpful to know where the current implied volatility level stands in relation to its medium-term range.

Trend – This indicator measures trend intensity by telling us where price stands in relation to its 30 trading-day range. A very low number tells us that price is currently at or near monthly lows, while a higher number tells us that we are near the highs. A value at or near 50 percent tells us that we are at the middle of the currency pair’s monthly range.

Range High – 90-day closing high.

Range Low – 90-day closing low.

Last – Current market price.

Strategy – Based on the above criteria, we assign the more likely profitable strategy for any given currency pair. A highly volatile currency pair (Volatility Percentile very high) suggests that we should look to use Breakout strategies. More moderate volatility levels and strong Trend values make Momentum trades more attractive, while the lowest Vol Percentile and Trend indicator figures make Range Trading the more attractive strategy.

The information contained herein is derived from sources we believe to be reliable, but of which we have not independently verified. FOREX CAPITAL MARKETS, L.L.C.® assumes no responsibility for errors, inaccuracies or omissions in these materials, nor shall it be liable for damages arising out of any person’s reliance upon this information. FOREX CAPITAL MARKETS, L.L.C.® does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, graphics, links or other items contained within these materials. FOREX CAPITAL MARKETS, L.L.C.® shall not be liable for any special, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including without limitation losses, lost revenues, or lost profits that may result from these materials. Opinions and estimates constitute our judgment and are subject to change without notice. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Daily Technical Strategist: GBPUSD

2009-04-07T13:19:00.000-07:00

GBPUSD: Failing Ahead Of The 1.4981/86 Zone.

GBPUSD: An attempt on the upside following the pair’s strength activated at the 1.4110 level, its Mar 30’09 low failed Monday ahead of its key resistance zone seen at its Jan 16’09/Feb 09’09 highs at 1.4981/86.While this may have halted upside momentum temporarily, as long as the mentioned corrective decline is contained within its established ST rising channel, risk remains to the upside with a retarget of the 1.4981/86 zone expected. Above there will resume GBP’s recovery started at the 1.3655 level, its Mar 11’09 low towards the 1.5374 level, its Jan 08’09 high. Alternative, building on its Monday losses will mean further downside prices targeting the 1.4662 level, its Feb 23’09 high at first with a loss of there accelerating downside losses towards the 1.4305 level, its Mar 06’09 low and next the 1.3845 level, its Mar 18’09 low. All in all, we retain our bullish bias while the pair continues to maintain within its rising channel.

Support Comments
1.4662 Feb 23’09 high
1.4305 Mar 06’09 high
1.4137 Feb 12’09 low

Resistance Comments
1.4981/86 Jan 16’09/Feb 09’09 highs
1.5373 Jan 08’09 high
1.5722 Dec 17’08 high

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Online Currency-Trading Sites Multiply

2009-04-07T12:51:00.000-07:00

IF YOU LIKE TRADING ON VOLATILITY, THERE IS nothing quite like the forex market.

It is open 24 hours a day, five days a week, and the players range from global banks to individuals. The daily volume is well over $3 trillion, according to the Bank for International Settlements. Despite its gargantuan size, the market isn't tightly regulated, and traders can use lots of leverage, which poses benefits and dangers. There is no central exchange; the market moves from one country to another. As Tokyo is closing, for example, London is opening.

Among the 25 firms we evaluated for our annual Best Online Broker review, published on March 16, E*Trade, Interactive Brokers, MB Trading, thinkorswim and TradeStation all come with some kind of built-in forex- trading system. OptionsXpress and TradeKing have enabled currency futures trading, and customers of SiebertNet can place forex trades through a live broker.

Last week, Zecco (www.zecco.com) announced it is partnering with the forex trading firm GAIN Capital (www.gaincapital.com) to launch Zecco Forex. "Today's volatile forex markets have created an attractive and complementary opportunity for our investors," said Jeroen Veth, CEO of Zecco Holdings. "Zecco Forex provides them access to another asset class where they can make trades independent of overall equity-market direction."

ZECCO'S FOREX OFFERING (www.zecco.com/forex) is a separate legal entity from its regular platform, so customers must sign up for a separate account. In time, however, the firm plans to integrate the two platforms into a single display, but that isn't likely to happen until next year, according to Zecco spokesman Gabriel Dalporto.

When you arrive at Zecco's forex site, you will find some educational content, as well as an opportunity to sign up for a practice account with $50,000 to start. The practice account lets you play with the analytical tools in the GAIN Capital platform and gives you a feel for how forex trading works. The account includes real-time quotes and charts, along with all the trading tools and information available to Zecco Forex customers. These tools include single and contingent order types, a real-time newsfeed and market commentary, plus daily and weekly research.

Should you decide to take the leap to trading with your own money, you can sign up for either a mini account, with a minimum deposit of $250, or a standard account, with $2,500. Those who deposit $10,000 or more can use a more advanced trading platform. The Java-based downloadable trading platform, ForexTrader Desktop, runs only on Windows, while the more advanced ForexTrader Web can be used by those with Macs and the Safari browser.

Most forex brokers don't charge explicit commissions; they tack on a fee to the price paid for the trade. Zecco's spreads are in line with what most of its rivals charge; a list can be found at http://www.zecco.com/forex/trade-pricing.html.

A key component of forex trading is leverage. Yes, stock and option traders can employ leverage by trading on margin. But their use of margin is minuscule, compared with that often found in foreign-exchange trades. You can utilize leverage of as much as 200 times the size of your account, so with just $500, you can hold $100,000 of currencies. With high leverage, however, comes much greater risk. It is imperative to stay on top of all your open transactions to avoid a huge margin call. Failure to use leverage prudently can be disastrous, as Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and thousands of no-down-payment home buyers found out.

Zecco Forex's offering lets customers trade in 37 currency pairs, though most of the action is in just a few currencies (primarily the U.S. dollar, Japanese yen, euro and British pound). The Zecco community is starting to see action in its newly launched Forex section, so you can discuss your strategies with other traders.

FIDELITY'S FIXED-INCOME AUTO-ROLL program (www.fidelity.com) went live at the end of March. It allows customers to automatically reinvest the principal of their matured new-issue U.S. Treasury bills, notes and FDIC-insured certificates of deposit into similar new-issue instruments. The goal is to make it easier for customers to remain fully invested and leave less cash on the sidelines.

The Auto Roll Program's methodology takes into consideration the original instrument's security type, size, term to maturity and coupon frequency when locating a new purchase. Customers can verify that the pending trade matches their objectives through a Fidelity e-mail alert. If they decide not to reinvest, there is an option to cancel the trade.

Auto Roll is available for new-issue Treasuries and certificates of deposit with a term to maturity of five years or less. If a Treasury or CD that matches the original investment isn't found, Fidelity will alert the customer and move the principal of the mature instrument to the default cash position in his or her brokerage account.

NOTES ON SWITCHING ACCOUNTS: In response to our March 23 "How To Switch Brokers Painlessly" column, Steve Sanders, vice president at Interactive Brokers (www.interactivebrokers.com), tells us that there is a sister system to the Automated Customer-Account Transfer System, or ACAT, used by many firms. Called the Currency and Banking Retrieval System, it passes lot and cost-basis information from one broker to another. Adds Sanders: "It is up to the discretion of the broker to use this system. [Interactive Brokers] makes full use of this system, whenever the ACAT transfer broker also makes use of this system."

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2009-04-07T12:47:00.000-07:00

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3rd UPDATE:Citic Pacific Hit By FX Trades; Chmn Vows Rebound

2009-03-25T12:00:00.000-07:00

Citic Pacific Ltd.'s (0267.HK) foreign exchange scandal pushed it to a full-year loss of HK$12.66 billion (US$1.62 billion), but the conglomerate says it will return to profitability in 2009.

"Now that we have put the issues of 2008 behind us we are focused on the future," Chairman Larry Yung told a news conference.

"Our balance sheet is solid, with debt maturity well structured in anticipation of cash flows from our businesses," Yung said. But he warned the economic slump will harm Citic Pacific's steel and property operations this year.

Although Yung sought to answer questions about the forex scandal by saying the company had moved past it, an investigation by Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission is still under way. Yung said he doesn't know when the probe will be completed, declining further comment.

Citic Pacific, which has power, property, aviation, ore and steel operations, said it swung to a net loss of HK$12.66 billion for the 12 months ended Dec. 31, from a restated net profit of HK$10.84 billion a year earlier.

The company's first-ever annual loss was wider than the average forecast of HK$11.69 billion in a Thomson Reuters survey of three analysts.

J.P. Morgan analyst Billy Ng said he expects Citic Pacific can return to profitability this year, though the aviation and steel businesses will remain under pressure.

"The timing of a recovery in specialty steel is uncertain, and visibilty on the iron ore project remains low," Ng said.

Citic Pacific's shares fell 8% Wednesday, closing at HK$8.96 after partially bouncing back from losses of as much as 10.2% on the day.

Citic Pacific said revenue rose 20% last year to HK$46.42 billion from HK$38.53 billion.

Citic Pacific directors won't get a bonus for 2008 because of the loss, Yung said, and shareholders won't get a dividend.

Citic Pacific disclosed Oct. 20 it faced billions of dollars in losses over what it called unauthorized forex bets by two executives who left the company. The trades were made through an arrangement known as an "accumulator" that gave Citic Pacific limited upside but unlimited downside, and they turned bad when the Australian dollar unexpectedly fell against the U.S. dollar.

Citic Pacific said Wednesday it booked realized and mark-to-market losses of HK$14.63 billion over the bets.

The conglomerate came under intense criticism after it was revealed the board found out about the trades Sept. 7, about six weeks before the disclosure.

Citic Pacific's state-owned parent, Citic Group, ended up taking over most of the currency bets in exchange for a stake in the listed unit.

The timing of the disclosure is believed to be a focus of the SFC investigation, though the SFC and Citic Pacific have declined comment on specifics.

Yung said that the 2008 loss won't force Citic Pacific to sell any assets, but weak demand for iron ore has prompted it to delay the opening of a mine in western Australia by a year, to the third quarter of 2010.

Citic Pacific, which owns 80% of the mine project, said earlier it planned to produce 27.7 million metric tons a year of a mix of ore concentrate and iron pellets. The company acquired the rights to mine 2 billion metric tons of iron ore in Western Australia's Pilbara region in 2006.

Citic Pacific said Wednesday two directors from its parent, Zhang Jijing and Ju Weimin, were named as non-executive directors of the listed company, effective April 1.

HK's Citic Pacific records $1.6 bln loss in 2008

2009-03-25T11:59:00.000-07:00

HONG KONG: Citic Pacific Ltd., the Hong Kong arm of a Chinese government investment firm, said Wednesday it suffered a massive loss last year after making bad currency bets, but maintained its finances were secure.

The company reported 12.7 billion Hong Kong dollars ($1.6 billion) net loss for 2008, compared to a profit of HK$10.8 billion in 2007, the company said in a statement.

Wrongway bets in the currency market were largely to blame, costing the company HK$14.6 billion (US$1.9 billion), according to the statement.

Citic Pacific stunned investors last year when it revealed huge losses from bad bets on leveraged foreign currency contracts, prompting the company to seek a $1.5 billion bailout from its Beijing-based parent company Citic Group.

Chairman Larry Yung expected the impact of the bad currency bets to diminish and said the company would turn a profit this year.
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"We've already put aside provisions from last year for most of the bets, so we think it will be normal profit for us," Yung said at a news conference in Hong Kong.

The vast conglomerate, whose dealings run from airlines to mining and Wal-Mart stores, also said it is "financially secure" following the bailout. However, maturing debt in the next years requires refinancing which will begin shortly, Citic Pacific said in the statement.

The company recommended against a final dividend and directors will not receive bonuses for last year, the statement said.

CITIC Pacific posted its first annual loss in almost two decades after wrong-way bets on the Australian dollar forced it to seek a bailout from China.

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et loss was $HK12.7 billion ($2.35 billion), or $HK5.68 a share, for 2008, compared with a profit of $HK10.8 billion, or $HK4.90, a year earlier, the Hong Kong-listed company said yesterday.

That compares with the $HK11.2 billion loss median estimate of five analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.

Sales rose 21 per cent to $HK46.4 billion.

Citic Pacific plunged 81 per cent in 2008, making it the second-worst performing stock on Hong Kong's benchmark index after losses on Australian dollar bets forced it to seek $US1.5 billion ($2.15 billion) of aid from state-owned parent Citic Group.

Citic Pacific said it had a $HK14.6 billion realised and marked-to-market loss after tax on foreign exchange contracts.

"What really matters now is the company's guidance on its underlying businesses, as most of them -- such as aviation and steel production -- are quite cyclical," Billy Ng, a Hong Kong-based analyst at JPMorgan Chase, said before the earnings statement.

"The exchange loss is no surprise and is reflected in the share price."

Citic Pacific, which also develops property, faces dwindling demand because of the global recession. The stock has gained 14.6 per cent this year, compared with the 3.8 per cent drop in the Hang Seng index.

Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's biggest carrier, which is 17.5 per cent owned by Citic Pacific, on March 11 reported an annual loss of $HK8.56 billion after making wrong bets on fuel prices and as the global recession crimped travel.

Citic Pacific bought currency contracts to fund a $1.6 billion iron ore mine in Australia. The company had expected the Australian dollar would rise, and incurred losses after the currency tumbled against its US counterpart.

Citic Pacific's chairman Larry Yung and managing director Henry Fan were among 17 directors being probed by the Securities and Futures Commission, the company said on January 2. The commission did not say what the probe was about.

The board has been criticised for a six-week delay in revealing the losses by lawmakers and shareholder activist David Webb.

"Investors will need some time to rebuild their confidence in the company," said JPMorgan's Mr Ng, who recommends that investors "underweight" Citic Pacific shares.

According to Citic Pacific's website, the company was listed in 1991 after it bought a 49 per cent stake in Tylfull Company and changed names.

Citic Pacific dips into red ink on forex losses Omits final dividend, won't pay directors' bonuses; chairman sees tough 2009

2009-03-25T11:55:00.000-07:00

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Diversified conglomerate Citic Pacific said Wednesday it swung to a loss of HK$12.66 billion ($1.62 billion) in 2008 after suffering HK$14.63 billion in losses on a number of foreign exchange contracts.
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CTPCY 5.81, -0.40, -6.4%) , which has interests in steel making, mining, power generation and trading, infrastructure and air-cargo services, said the board has also decided to scrap final dividend payment and not pay any bonuses to directors for 2008.
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"Our company is financially secure following the re-capitalization by the Citic Group," the company said in a statement, referring to its Chinese state-owned parent.
"Shareholders' funds stood at HK$50 billion at 31 December 2008. ... Maturing debt in the next few years requires re-financing and, considering today's environment, work on this will begin shortly," it said.
The company's revenue increased 20% to HK$46.42 bililon.
Chairman Larry Yung said Citic Pacific is facing a difficult operating environment in 2009, "which will impact this year's performance."
Still, "as we look at global economic conditions and compare the situation in China, we remain encouraged. We have sufficient resources and are well placed to capture future opportunities," Yung said.

US and Europe Reject Chinese Bid for New Global Currency

2009-03-25T11:52:00.002-07:00

US and European policymakers are standing behind the dollar as the world's reserve currency. Their comments followed a Chinese bid to see the currency replaced by International Monetary Fund coinage.

An upcoming global economic summit could turn into a showdown over the dollar as the world's reserve currency.

China has publicly thrown its support behind other emerging economies such as Russia which want to shift the world's currency away from the dollar to a new currency run by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

"The outbreak of the crisis and its spillover to the entire world reflected the inherent vulnerabilities and systemic risks in the existing international monetary system," People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said in a speech posted on the People's Bank of China's Web site.

Analysts say Zhou's recent comments are the latest sign of the country's growing assertiveness on the international stage. They also show a growing concern China has over the $1.7 trillion (1.3 trillion euros) it holds in US treasury bonds and reserve dollars.

US, Europe want dollar to stay

Obama gestures at a press conferenceBildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Obama doesn't see the need for a global currency

The United States and Europe have dismissed the idea of doing away with the dollar as the international reserve currency. The European Union's top economic official said he thinks the dollar will remain the world's major reserve currency.

EU Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said he doesn't see "major structural changes in the role the dollar plays today as a major reserve currency."

Top US leaders, including President Barack Obama, said they want the dollar to keep its current status.

"I don't believe there is a need for a global currency," US President Barack Obama said at a press conference on Tuesday.

He noted that "the dollar is extraordinarily strong right now," and although the United States was "going through a rough patch" at present, the dollar enjoyed a "great deal of confidence" from investors.

Both US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said they would not support a plan to strip the dollar of its reserve status.

Issue likely to be debated at G20 summit

International Monetary Fund logoBildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: China would like to see the IMF take a more prominent role

Yet the idea is likely to be floated anyway at an upcoming Group of 20 summit planned for London in April. The meeting of industrialized countries will bring together top leaders in hopes of finding a common approach to the global financial crisis.

People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said he would support moving away from the dollar to an IMF currency basket that would include a mixture of dollars, euros, sterling and yen. The IMF already created an international reserve asset in 1969, but the Special Drawing Rights, as it is called, is currently used only by governments and international institutions.

Russia has said it will bring up the proposal at the upcoming G20 meeting in London. Russia said its has broad support for its proposal among countries such as Brazil, India, China, South Korea and South Africa.

Not likely to happen anytime soon

In the near-term, such a radical departure from the way the global financial system works would be near impossible, economists say, although it could be feasible in the long term.

"The arguments for doing such a thing have economic merit, though the actual implementation of such a system would likely take a Herculean effort and a great deal of consensus building amongst economic powers," Sacha Tihanyi, currency strategist with Scotia Capital told AFP news agency.

"This is an idea, the idea of a global currency, determined by multilateral organizations, which is not new, but it's a serious proposal," John Lipsky, the IMF's first deputy managing director, said at a news conference in response to a question about China's proposal.

China growing more assertive

A man examines stock update on a display at a stock brokerage in Beijing, ChinaBildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: China is the biggest US creditor

The recent comments by China's top banker follows on comments made by China's Premier earlier this month. They show how concerned the country is about its US assets.

"We have lent huge amounts of money to the United States. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets," Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said two weeks ago.

China holds US Treasury bonds worth $739.6 billion as of January. It is also the world's largest holder of US dollars as a reserve currency, holding more than $1 trillion, according to US government figures.

"China appears to be growing more and more assertive over its rights," currency analyst Andrew Busch of BMO Capital Markets told AFP news agency.

The dollar, which was installed as the reserve currency after World War II, has been regarded as a "safe haven" by international investors up to now.

How to Destroy the Dollar Without Really Trying

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Geithner, at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the U.S. is "open" to a headline-grabbing proposal by the governor of the China's central bank, which was widely reported as being a call for a new global currency to replace the dollar, but which Geithner described as more modest and "evolutionary."

"I haven’t read the governor’s proposal. He’s a very thoughtful, very careful distinguished central banker. I generally find him sensible on every issue," Geithner said, saying that however his interpretation of the proposal was to increase the use of International Monetary Fund's special drawing rights -- shares in the body held by its members -- not creating a new currency in the literal sense.

"We’re actually quite open to that suggestion – you should see it as rather evolutionary rather building on the current architecture rather than moving us to global monetary union," he said.

At last night's presser, Obama was asked about the Chinese proposal (maybe Geithner didn't watch?) and took the rather old fashioned view that the dollar should continue to serve as the world's currency because the United States is "the strongest economy in the world, with the most stable political system in the world." Sensing a potential firestorm, Smith reports that the moderator at Geithner's event went back to the Treasury Secretary to give him a second chance at answering the question. Geithner then gave the more conventional response that the U.S. government "will do what's necessary to say we're sustaining confidence in our financial markets."

US Treasury defends dollar as world reserve currency

2009-03-25T11:51:00.001-07:00

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended Wednesday the dollar as a key global reserve currency following China's call for a new global currency as an alternative to the greenback.

"I think the dollar remains the world's standard reserve currency, I think that's likely to continue for a long period of time," he said.

"As a country, we will do as necessary to make sure that we are sustaining confidence in our financial markets" and economy," he told the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations.

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended the dollar as "extraordinarily strong."

He said investors considered the United States "the strongest economy in the world with the most stable political system in the world" even as it was reeling from a prolonged recession stemming from financial turmoil.

People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan had this week called for a replacement of the dollar, installed as the reserve currency after World War II, with a different standard run by the International Monetary Fund.

Zhou suggested the IMF's Special Drawing Rights, a currency basket comprising dollars, euros, sterling and yen, could serve as a super-sovereign reserve currency, saying it would not be easily influenced by the policies of individual countries.

China is the largest creditor to the United States, being the top holder of US Treasury bonds worth 739.6 billion dollars as of January, according to US figures. It is also the world's largest holder of US dollars as a reserve currency, at more than one trillion dollars.

Will You Please, Be Quiet, Please?

2009-03-25T11:50:00.000-07:00

Some have commented that whatever merits Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner may have, public speaking is not one of them. The dollar slumped dramatically against the euro, yen and other currencies after Mr. Geithner Wednesday said the U.S. is “quite open” to a suggestion from Chinese officials of a move to a “Special Drawing Right” linked currency system.
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Oy. “Geithner is learning the hard way about the impact that his comments can have on the currency market and despite his attempt to pacify investors, his words have left an air of uncertainty in the U.S. dollar,” writes Kathy Lien, director of currency research at Global Forex Trading.

With the Chinese of late making plenty of noise about U.S. borrowing and spending and the health of the U.S. dollar, officials in the U.S. would be expected to push back against that. President Barack Obama did as much in his press conference Tuesday, saying that the dollar was fundamentally strong, and that there was no need for another reserve currency.

With markets, it remains easy to take things out of context quickly. The Treasury secretary was responding to a proposal made by Zhou Xiaochuan, China’s central bank governor, who earlier this month said the world should consider using the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights basket as a super-sovereign reserve currency. Mr. Geithner admitted to not reading the proposal, but added that he was “open” to the suggestion to increase the use of the IMF’s drawing rights.

That’s not quite the same as saying the dollar is no longer the world’s primary reserve currency. SDRs are a basket of currencies issued by the IMF, and “given the deflation threat and the liquidity crisis a new SDR issuance may make sense, but it does not take away from the dollar’s role,” says Marc Chandler, head of forex strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman.

Mr. Geithner then tried to walk back his comments, saying, “the dollar remains the world’s dominant reserve currency. I think that’s likely to continue for a long period of time.” He added that “as a country we will do what is necessary to make sure we are sustaining confidence in our financial markets.”

To be sure, it’s not as if Mr. Geithner is the first Treasury Secretary to have trouble with communication. George W. Bush’s first Treasury head, Paul O’Neill, had a number of strange statements that markets reacted poorly to, and his second man at the helm there, John Snow, remarked early in his tenure that the dollar’s fall made economic sense, which accelerated the selloff. Even smooth operators like Robert Rubin were not immune.

Still, it’s clear Mr. Geithner, right now, is not the most artful when it comes to public speaking. It isn’t the first time, as a previous statement about China being a currency manipulator roiled bond markets. The euro rose to a high of $1.3649 after Mr. Geithner’s initial comments, and later retreated to $1.3550. The dollar fell to 96.93 yen, but recovered somewhat, and was at 97.53 yen.

The US on Tuesday defended the use of the premier reserve status as suggested by China?”

2009-03-25T11:48:00.000-07:00

he US on Tuesday defended the use of the premier reserve status as suggested by China?”

Geithner immediately responded: “I would.”

“And the chair?” the lawmaker asked, turning to Bernanke.

“I would also,” Bernanke said.

China is the largest creditor to the US, being the top reserve currency even as emerging economies such as China play a more critical role in the role that the dollar plays today as a reserve currency, at more than US$1 trillion.

In such a dominant position, “China appears to be growing more and more assertive over its rights,” currency analyst Andrew Busch of BMO Capital Markets said.

Meanwhile, a top economic official from the dollar and going to a global currency,” Obama said.

But People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan's (周小川) call to replace the dollar, installed as the top holder of US dollars as a key global currency, shrugging off China's calls to ditch it as the top holder of US dollars as a reserve currency, at more than US$1 trillion.

In such a dominant position, “China appears to be growing more and more assertive over its rights,” currency analyst Andrew Busch of BMO Capital Markets said.

Meanwhile, a top economic official from the EU, whose single currency is gaining an increasing share among central banks as a reserve currency.”

Obama stands by greenback as prime reserve currency

2009-03-25T11:47:00.000-07:00

The US on Tuesday defended the use of the greenback as a key global currency, shrugging off China's calls to ditch it as the international reserve currency.

US President Barack Obama told a White House press conference that “the dollar is extraordinarily strong right now,” and although the US was “going through a rough patch” at present, it enjoyed a “great deal of confidence” from investors.

“I don't believe there is a need for a global currency,” Obama said.

But People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan's (周小川) call to replace the dollar, installed as the reserve currency after World War II, with a different standard run by the IMF was a “serious” proposal, a senior IMF official said.

US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said at a congressional hearing that they would not allow the dollar to be stripped of the premier reserve status as suggested by Beijing.

At the hearing, a lawmaker asked the two financial chiefs: “Would you categorically renounce the United States moving away from the dollar and going to a global currency as suggested by China?”

Geithner immediately responded: “I would.”

“And the chair?” the lawmaker asked, turning to Bernanke.

“I would also,” Bernanke said.

China is the largest creditor to the US, being the top holder of US$739.6 billion in US Treasury bonds as of January, US figures show. It is also the world's largest holder of US dollars as a reserve currency, at more than US$1 trillion.

In such a dominant position, “China appears to be growing more and more assertive over its rights,” currency analyst Andrew Busch of BMO Capital Markets said.

Meanwhile, a top economic official from the EU, whose single currency is gaining an increasing share among central banks as a reserve currency, said the dollar remained unchallenged as the dominant reserve unit.

EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said the dollar would remain unchallenged as the top reserve currency even as emerging economies such as China play a more critical role in the global economy.

“The relative economic powers are changing,” he told a news conference at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. “But I don't expect major structural changes in the role that the dollar plays today as a reserve currency.”

CANADA FX DEBT-C$ rises after Geithner comments, stocks help

2009-03-25T11:46:00.000-07:00

* Canadian dollar up as Geithner's comments hit greenback

* Rising equity markets lend support, oil pares losses

* C$ still relatively range-bound (Updates to midday)

TORONTO, March 25 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar reversed early weakness on Wednesday as the U.S. currency was undercut by comments from U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and by rising equity markets.

The flight-to-safety appeal of the U.S. currency was also hurt by better-than-expected U.S. durable goods orders for February and a jump in new home sales. [ID:nLP953349]

Geithner's comments that were the main catalyst that drew the U.S. dollar into a volatile spin as he expressed openness to expanded use of an IMF currency basket even as he said the greenback would remain the world's reserve currency for a long time. [ID:nN25418099]

Despite the weaker U.S. dollar, however, the Canadian currency stayed in the same C$1.22-C$1.24 range it has been in all week.

At noon (1600 GMT), the Canadian currency was at C$1.2254 to the U.S. dollar, or 81.61 U.S. cents, up from C$1.2318 to the U.S. dollar, or 81.18 U.S. cents, at Tuesday's close.

"Currencies were jumping around on Geithner's comments," said Shane Enright, currency strategist at CIBC World Markets.

"In general though, we haven't really deviated far from the levels we saw yesterday. We're still very much in familiar territory. The C$1.22 level seems to be key short-term (U.S. dollar) support here and today we haven't really seriously threatened that."

Stronger equity markets lent some support to the Canadian dollar, while the price of oil pared losses and neared $54 a barrel after Geithner's remarks. The currency has taken cues on direction from equity and commodity markets lately, considering them a barometer of risk sentiment.

Meanwhile, Canadian government bonds held in negative territory as stocks climbed, shrugging off a large purchase of government debt made by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The New York Federal Reserve bought $7.5 billion in longer-dated Treasury securities whose maturities range from 2016 to 2019, part of the U.S. central bank's program to help lower long-term borrowing costs. [ID:nNYE000537]

The two-year bond fell 3 Canadian cents to C$100.12 to yield 1.193 percent. The 10-year bond slipped 42 Canadian cents to C$107.03 to yield 2.944 percent.

The 30-year bond lost 50 Canadian cents to C$122.35 to yield 3.714 percent. The U.S. 30-year bond yielded 3.691 percent. (Reporting by Ka Yan Ng; editing by Peter Galloway)

Geithner: Dollar Is Here To Stay

2009-03-25T11:45:00.000-07:00

, continuing a string of comments by officials in President Obama's administration, dismissed a proposal by a Chinese official to ditch the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency.

Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations Wednesday morning, Geithner said he was not familiar with People's Bank of China Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan's plan, which would see the elevation of the International Monetary Fund'sSpecial Drawing Right to become the world's de facto reserve currency, effectively replacing the dollar. (See "Beijing Shows Buyer's Remorse.")
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"As I understand his proposal, it's a proposal designed to increase the use of the IMF's special drawing rights. And we're actually quite open to that suggestion. But you should think of it as rather evolutionary, building on the current architectures, rather than moving us to global monetary union," he said.

"It is very important just to underscore that the future evolution of the dollar's role in the system depends really primarily on how effective we are in the U.S. in getting not just recovery back on track, our financial system repaired, but we get our fiscal position back to the point where people will judge it as sustainable over time," Geithner said.

This marks the second major response from a high government official voicing his opinion of Xiaochuan's proposal. On Tuesday, former Fed chief Paul Volcker, speaking at The Wall Street Journal's Future of Finance Initiative, slammed the Chinese plan.

"I think the Chinese are a little disingenuous to say, 'Now isn't it so bad that we hold all these dollars.' They hold all these dollars because they chose to buy the dollars, and they didn't want to sell the dollars because they didn't want to depreciate their currency. It was a very simple calculation on their part, so they shouldn't come around blaming it all on us."

Speaking further about the dollar's future, Geithner said: "I think the dollar remains the world's dominant reserve currency. I think that's likely to continue for a long period of time."

Geithner: Dollar is 'dominant reserve currency'

2009-03-25T11:44:00.001-07:00

NEW YORK

The dollar mostly recovered from its plunge early Wednesday as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in remarks before the Council on Foreign Relations the greenback will remain the world's "dominant reserve currency" for a long time.

Brian Dolan, a currency strategist at Forex.com, attributed the dollar's collapse earlier to Geithner saying the U.S. was "quite open" to an increase in the use of the IMF's "Special Drawing Rights" -- a basket of currencies made up of the euro, yen, pound and dollar that has served as a reserve asset since 1969 -- in response to a question about a recent essay by Zhou Xiaochuan, the head of China's central bank.

Zhou, in his article, recommended creating an expanded reserve currency made up of a basket of major currencies and controlled by the International Monetary Fund.

Geithner's "off-the-cuff, impromptu remark touched a nerve in the market," Dolan said. "The dollar is under suspicion due to a potential devaluation effect" from the floods of money the U.S. government is injecting into the system to help unfreeze credit markets. "Any comment of the treasury secretary distancing itself from (the dollar as) reserve status is a major blow."

Geithner later said he had interpreted Zhou's article to be a call for an expanded currency substitute used by the International Monetary Fund, according to a transcript on the Council on Foreign Relation's Web site.

Dolan said Geithner meant that world currency reserves -- which are now composed primarily of dollars, euros and some amounts of other major currencies -- should more accurately reflect the emergence of other major global players, and that countries should also one day hold stocks of Indian, Chinese and Russian currencies, for example.

The dollar mostly returned to its levels before the plunge after Geithner said "the dollar remains the dominant reserve currency and is likely to remain that for a long period of time."

President Barack Obama said Tuesday night during a press conference that China's call for a new global reserve currency was unnecessary. Earlier in the day, Geithner himself and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had both said they rejected the idea of a new global currency during a congressional hearing.

The 16-nation euro traded at $1.3548 in New York midday trading from $1.3518 late Tuesday, after previously bouncing as high as $1.3651 on Geithner's statements.

The dollar also sank to 96.89 Japanese yen before recovering to 97.72 yen. Late Tuesday, the dollar bought 97.89 yen.

Geithner Remarks on IMF Roil Foreign-Exchange Market

2009-03-25T11:42:00.002-07:00

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent the dollar tumbling with comments about China’s ideas for overhauling the global monetary system, only to drive it back up by affirming that it should remain the world’s reserve currency.

Geithner was initially asked at a Council on Foreign Relations event in New York about proposals from People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan for a new international reserve currency. He said “as I understand his proposal, it’s a proposal designed to increase the use of the IMF’s special drawing rights. And we’re actually quite open to that.”

The dollar slid as much as 1.3 percent against the euro within 10 minutes of news accounts of Geithner’s remarks. The U.S. currency was down 0.6 percent at $1.3553 as of 12:31 p.m. in New York.

Roger Altman, who worked with Geithner as deputy Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, later asked Geithner whether he wanted to “clarify” his remarks.

“I’d like to ask one final question, in effect on behalf of the market,” said Altman, founder of Evercore Partners Inc. “Let me ask the question this way. Do you see any change over the foreseeable future in the basic role of the dollar as the world’s key reserve currency?”

‘Strong’ Dollar

Geithner responded by saying that “I think the dollar remains the world’s dominant reserve currency.” In an interview with CNBC broadcast after the event, the Treasury chief said that a “strong dollar” is in “America’s interest.”

In his earlier response, Geithner said an increased use of SDRs should be “rather evolutionary, building on the current architecture, rather than moving us to global monetary union.”

Those remarks don’t indicate Geithner favors moving to a system with the SDR as a reserve currency, strategist Lee Hardman at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. wrote in a note.

“That was the big concern amongst the confusion,” London- based Hardman said. “A move to an SDR-linked system away from the dollar would naturally lead to a reduction in the dollar’s share of global reserves.”

Geithner, a former Treasury undersecretary for international affairs and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which carries out U.S. interventions in currency markets, also said that “we will do what’s necessary to make sure we’re sustaining confidence in our financial markets.”

Geithner misses lifeline, sinks dollar

2009-03-25T11:42:00.001-07:00

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner had been having a relatively good week until today.

On Monday, he introduced his detailed bank-rescue plan which financial markets greeted with a huge rally.

Yesterday, he did fairly well weathering congressional questioning of his role in the AIG bonuses affair.

But today he sent signals, apparently unwittingly, that the Obama Administration might not be all that into having the dollar as the world's reserve currency, a position that would have placed the administration at odds with its predecessors and remade the world of global currencies.

Geithner was asked about an article by the Chinese finance minister in which the Chinese official suggested the need for a new global currency. Geithner's response seemed to indicate he could live with that.

Here's an excerpt of the exchange:

Q Well, thank you. Wonder if you could comment on two related things.

One, the Chinese government proposal about a global currency; and about the IMF regulations that were -- the new IMF idea about, you know, very general agreements to borrow and having a faster ability to disburse to the (margin ?) markets.

SEC. GEITHNER: On the first question, I haven't read the governor's proposal. He's a remarkably -- a very thoughtful, very careful, distinguished central banker. Generally find him sensible on every issue. But as I understand his proposal, it's a proposal designed to increase the use of the IMF's special drawing rights. And we're actually quite open to that suggestion. But you should think of it as rather evolutionary, building on the current architectures, than -- rather than -- rather than moving us to global monetary union.

Fortunately for Geithner, the question and answer session was moderated by Roger Altman who was a senior Treasury official in the Clinton Administration. Altman immediately recognized that Geithner had slipped off the deck and was a man overboard, at least when it came to U.S. dollar policy. Altman tried to throw Geithner a lifeline.

MR. ALTMAN: Let me just follow that up for one second. A number -- I haven't read the governor's essay, either, but a slew of news reports interpreted his comments to suggest that the world needs a super reserve currency, and that the dollar, on some gradual basis, ought to be replaced in favor of that. And I wasn't entirely clear what your response was.

SEC. GEITHNER: Well, as I said, I haven't read his proposal, but I thought the initial reaction was sort of ahead of the details of the proposal I saw. The only thing concrete I saw was a reference to expanding the use of the SDR, but I look forward to reading his figures. As I said, I have tremendous respect for him. He's a really thoughtful, pragmatic guy, and he has a great record of credibility in China as a whole, so anything he's -- he's thinking about deserves some consideration.

It is very important just to underscore that the future evolution of the dollar's role in the system depends really primarily on how effective we are in the United States in getting not just recovery back on track, our financial system repaired, but we get our fiscal position back to the point where people will judge it as sustainable over time.

Geithner said a whole lot more blah, blah, blah. But he never said the magic words which Altman, to his credit, recognized.

So the question and answer session continued. Then, just before it ended, Altman returned to the dollar question. This time he did everything but answer the question himself for Geithner.

MR. ALTMAN: I'd like to ask one final question, in effect, on behalf of the market. It might be useful if you tried to clarify your earlier comment on the reaction to the central bank governor of China's idea, and so let me ask the question this way. Do you see any change over the foreseeable future in the basic role of the dollar as the world's key reserve currency, or the reserve currency?

SEC. GEITHNER: I do not. I think the dollar remains the world's dominant reserve currency. I think that's likely to continue for a long period of time. And as a country, we will do what's necessary to make sure we're sustaining confidence in our financial markets, and in the productive capacity of this economy and in our long-term fundamentals.

FOREX-Dollar slides vs euro as Geithner comment weighs

2009-03-25T11:41:00.001-07:00

* Geithner causes euro/dollar volatility

* Investors move quickly on SDR comment

* Geithner clarifies dollar to remain top reserve currency (Adds comment, updates prices, changes byline)

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss

NEW YORK, March 25 (Reuters) - The dollar fell against the euro in choppy trading on Wednesday after U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he was open to expanding the use of the International Monetary Fund's special drawing rights.

Investors initially interpreted his remarks as an endorsement of China's proposal on Monday to eventually replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency by the IMF's SDR.

Geithner's comments sent the dollar to session lows against the euro, although it did recoup some of its losses after the Treasury's top official said the greenback would keep its status as the top reserve currency for a long time. For details, see [ID:nN25385009]

"Geithner's comments this morning regarding ... SDRs and the dollar came a bit out of left field," said Dustin Reid, a currency strategist, at RBS Global Banking and Markets in Chicago.

He "suggested he is 'open to changing the weightings and currencies included for the IMF's SDR. Geithner did not say that the world monetary system should move away from using the dollar as the preferred global reserve currency in favor of using SDRs as some initial headlines were suggesting."

In early afternoon trading, the euro was up 0.6 percent against the dollar at $1.3550 after going as high as $1.3649 in the wake of Geithner's remarks, according to Reuters data.

China's central bank governor said earlier this week that the world should consider the SDR, a basket of dollars, euros, sterling and yen, as a super-sovereign reserve currency. [ID:nPEK184558]

Geithner, responding to a question at a Council of Foreign Relations event in New York, said he had not read the Chinese proposal but added, "as I understand it, it's a proposal designed to increase the use of the IMF's Special Drawing Rights. I am actually quite open to that suggestion."

Analysts said the initial gyrations in the dollar were a mistake.

Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman in a note to clients said President Barack Obama's recent comments about the dollar being fundamentally strong and there being no need of another reserve currency, is more of the underlying signal.

Obama said in a prime-time televised news conference on Tuesday: "I don't believe that there's a need for a global currency", and noted that the dollar was "extraordinarily strong right now".

Geithner says strong dollar in U.S. interest

2009-03-25T11:40:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday that a strong dollar is in the United States' interest and that there were no signs foreign investors were tiring of buying U.S. government debt.

"I want to say this very clearly, a strong dollar is in America's interest. We are going to make sure to pursue policies that improve the long-term fundamentals of the U.S. economy," he told CNBC.

Geithner said there was "no evidence" foreign investors were losing interest in purchasing U.S. debt securities.

Earlier on Wednesday, the dollar slipped after Geithner said he was open to a proposal by China to increase the use of IMF Special Drawing Rights that some have seen as a suggestion they become the world's dominant reserve currency.

Geithner said there were some signs that sustained government efforts to stabilize the financial system were beginning to pay off.

"We've seen a lot of adjustment across the U.S. economy, across the global economy, and you're seeing the pace of deterioration start to slow in some areas," he said, but added it will take time to get over the current downturn.

In the meantime, Geithner acknowledged, more money may be needed for a U.S. bank bailout. He said there still is money in the $700-billion Troubled Asset Relief Program and that will be used quickly.

"But we always said this crisis may require more resources to deal with effectively, and we're going to make sure we work with the Congress over time so that we can do this on a scale that is going to bring recovery back as soon as possible," he added.

Geithner said China, which is now the single largest buyer of U.S. debt, was playing a "constructive" role in helping the global economy get through the current crisis by trying to keep its own economy performing well.

"The things they are doing to get their economy stronger, to encourage domestic demand growth, to allow further evolution in their basic financial framework, those things are very important, consequential policies and we're working very closely with them," he said.

(Additional reporting by Tim Ahmann and David Lawder; Editing by Andrea Ricci)

China Talks Tough with Call to Dump Dollar

2009-03-25T11:39:00.000-07:00

Just over one week before President Barack Obama and other world leaders meet in London for a summit focusing on the , China is making clear it wants a greater say in managing economic policies worldwide. The latest blast from Beijing: a call by China's top central banker to dump the U.S. dollar as the world's most important currency. People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, in a paper released on the bank's Web site on Mar. 23, called for a new "super-sovereign reserve currency" to replace the current reliance on the dollar. The goal, Zhou writes, is to "create an international reserve currency that is disconnected from individual nations and is able to remain stable in the long run."

Not surprisingly, U.S. officials aren't welcoming the idea. Speaking on Mar. 24 at a congressional hearing in Washington, Treasury Secretary and Federal Reserve Chairman both said they categorically oppose the change.

And pretty much everyone agrees it's not going to happen. In his paper, Zhou called for using the International Monetary Fund's "special drawing right" (SDR) currency, now used mainly for accounting purposes by the Washington-based organization, and pegged to the euro, pound, yen, and dollar. To succeed, the new currency would also have to be adopted worldwide by private companies for international trade transactions, a tremendous challenge. "Denominating trade and investment is almost always done in terms of one currency—and making the SDR work like that is almost impossible to imagine," Stephen Green, research chief of Shanghai-based Standard Chartered China wrote in an e-mail to BusinessWeek.
Seeking More Say

How then to read Zhou's roiling of the financial waters? It's most likely a shot across the bow signaling China's intention to have a greater voice in world financial affairs. When he attends the G-20 opening on Apr. 2, Chinese President Hu Jintao is almost certain to call for expanding China's voting rights at the IMF. Presently the members of the European Union have a combined 32% of voting rights and the U.S. has 17%, compared with only 3.7% for China and 1.9% for India. Beijing, too, may offer to purchase up to $100 billion of any IMF-issued new bonds, a People's Bank of China vice-governor suggested in a press conference in Beijing on Mar. 23.

By calling for a super-sovereign reserve currency, Zhou signals China's dissatisfaction with the global economic pecking order. As well as demonstrating Beijing's new more assertive role in the world economy, Zhou's proposal to replace the dollar may also signal China's intention to move more aggressively to diversify its foreign exchange holdings. Zhou's paper contains a "hint of a threat that the U.S. should not take the dollar's privileged status for granted," Mark Williams, international economist at Capital Economics in London, wrote in a Mar. 24 report.

The central banker's controversial proposal is the latest in a series of moves signaling Chinese irritation with the U.S. For instance, Premier Wen Jiabao on Mar. 13 told reporters he was "worried" about the value of China's massive dollar holdings. Standard Chartered Bank (STAN.L) estimates that China, the world's largest holder of U.S. debt, held $1.45 trillion in U.S. securities at the end of 2008, out of a total $1.9 trillion in foreign reserves. As the starts spending $787 billion to boost the U.S. economy and another $1 trillion on its cash-strapped banks, Beijing is worried inflation in the U.S. could erode the value of its dollar holdings. During the Mar. 13 press conference broadcast live across China, Wen called on the U.S. to take efforts to "maintain its good credit, to honor its promises, and to guarantee the safety of China's assets."

Despite Zhou's bold proposal, Beijing also knows that any rapid move toward a new reserve tender could backfire for China. That would erode the value of China's dollar holdings and likely would lift the value of the yuan, China's currency, making the country's already beleaguered export sector even less competitive. "To the extent that its concern is that dollar weakness will undermine the value of its existing reserves, it clearly has no desire to precipitate such a shift by moving out of dollar assets," wrote Williams of Capital Economics. "Zhou is well aware that the dollar's position is secure for now." Indeed, the same day Zhou called for the new reserve currency, China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange issued a statement that it supported the dollar and would continue buying U.S. Treasuries.

Dollar Declines on Geithner’s Comment on Special Drawing Rights

2009-03-25T11:37:00.000-07:00

The dollar fell the most in almost a week against the euro on concern Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner supported a Chinese plan to blunt demand among global central banks for the greenback.

The U.S. currency pared losses after Geithner clarified his comments on the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights and said the dollar will remain the world’s primary reserve currency “for a long period of time.” The yen declined against most major currencies as stocks rallied on U.S. durable- goods and housing reports, reducing demand for safety.

“The dollar’s having a bad week,” said Jessica Hoversen, a foreign-exchange analyst in Chicago at MF Global Ltd., the world’s largest broker of exchange-traded futures and options contracts. “Government policy is only as effective as the government is credible. Having a government official speak out of both sides of his mouth in five minutes erodes credibility.”

The U.S. currency weakened as much as 1.2 percent to $1.3651 per euro, the biggest intraday decline since March 19, before trading at $1.3573 at 1:57 p.m. in New York. The dollar dropped 0.3 percent to 97.57 yen from 97.86. The euro increased 0.5 percent to 132.45 yen from 131.81.

The dollar dropped on Geithner’s comment in response to a question at a Council on Foreign Relations event in New York on People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan’s proposal regarding the use of special drawing rights, a unit of account at the fund used for member countries’ reserves with the IMF.

The Treasury secretary said that “as I understand his proposal, it’s a proposal designed to increase the use of the IMF’s special drawing rights. And we’re actually quite open to that suggestion.”

Clarifying Remarks

When Geithner was later asked whether he wanted to clarify his remarks, he affirmed the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency.

“That was the big concern amongst the confusion,” London- based Lee Hardman at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. wrote in a research note today. “A move to an SDR-linked system away from the dollar would naturally lead to a reduction in the dollar’s share of global reserves.”

Zhou said on March 23 in a report posted on the bank’s Web site that special drawing rights, monetary units valued against a composite of currencies, should also be used for international trade, financial transactions and commodity pricing. The IMF should aim in the longer term to create a “super-sovereign reserve currency,” Zhou said.

Weaker Yen

The yen dropped 1.1 percent to 55.72 against the New Zealand dollar and 0.9 percent to 6.88 versus Mexico’s peso as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index increased 1.2 percent on U.S. economic reports, encouraging speculation that Japanese investors will buy higher-yielding assets overseas.

Orders for U.S. durable goods increased 3.4 percent in February, the biggest gain in more than a year, the Commerce Department reported today. The median forecast of 69 economists surveyed by Bloomberg was for a decrease of 2.5 percent.

Another report from the department indicated new-home sales increased 4.7 percent from a record low pace in January, compared with a 2.9 decrease forecast by economists.

The collapse in demand for Japan’s exports may push manufacturing sentiment to the lowest in 30 years, economists said before the central bank’s Tankan survey due on April 1.

South Korea’s won was the biggest gainer versus the dollar after a finance ministry official said yesterday the government aims to spend 17.7 trillion won ($13.3 billion) by May or June to help the economy recover.

‘Positive Sentiment’

“There’s some positive sentiment that has led to a softening of the U.S. dollar” against the won, said Thio Chin Loo, a senior currency analyst at BNP Paribas SA in Singapore.

The won climbed as much as 2.1 percent to 1,362 per dollar, the strongest level since Jan. 29. South Korea’s economic stimulus plan includes funds for cash handouts, cheap loans, infrastructure and job training, the government said yesterday.

South Korea’s currency is the biggest loser against the dollar this quarter, dropping 7.6 percent on speculation the nation’s economic slump will deepen.

The 16-nation euro gained earlier versus the dollar as a report showed German business confidence this month was in line with the expectations of economists.

The Ifo institute in Munich said its business climate index, based on a survey of 7,000 executives, was 82.1 in March, compared with 82.6 in the previous month. The median forecast of 37 economists surveyed by Bloomberg was for a drop to 82.2. The reading was the worst since November 1982.

“Sentiment data is pretty dire around the world at the moment, and the German Ifo is a prime example of that,” said Neil Jones, head of European hedge fund sales at Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. in London. “However, it more or less matched expectations, and as long as things don’t get worse the euro will benefit.”

US backing for world currency stuns markets

2009-03-25T11:34:00.000-07:00

The dollar plunged instantly against the euro, yen, and sterling as the comments flashed across trading screens. David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC, said the apparent policy shift amounts to an earthquake in geo-finance.

"The mere fact that the US Treasury Secretary is even entertaining thoughts that the dollar may cease being the anchor of the global monetary system has caused consternation," he said.

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Mr Geithner later qualified his remarks, insisting that the dollar would remain the "world's dominant reserve currency ... for a long period of time" but the seeds of doubt have been sown.

The markets appear baffled by the confused statements emanating from Washington. President Barack Obama told a new conference hours earlier that there was no threat to the reserve status of the dollar.

"I don't believe that there is a need for a global currency. The reason the dollar is strong right now is because investors consider the United States the strongest economy in the world with the most stable political system in the world," he said.

The Chinese proposal, outlined this week by central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan, calls for a "super-sovereign reserve currency" under IMF management, turning the Fund into a sort of world central bank.

The idea is that the IMF should activate its dormant powers to issue Special Drawing Rights. These SDRs would expand their role over time, becoming a "widely-accepted means of payments".

Mr Bloom said that any switch towards use of SDRs has direct implications for the currency markets. At the moment, 65pc of the world's $6.8 trillion stash of foreign reserves is held in dollars. But the dollar makes up just 42pc of the basket weighting of SDRs. So any SDR purchase under current rules must favour the euro, yen and sterling.

Beijing has the backing of Russia and a clutch of emerging powers in Asia and Latin America. Economists have toyed with such schemes before but the issue has vaulted to the top of the political agenda as creditor states around the world takes fright at the extreme measures now being adopted by the Federal Reserve, especially the decision to buy US government debt directly with printed money.

Mr Bloom said the US is discovering that the sensitivities of creditors cannot be ignored. "China holds almost 30pc of the world's entire reserves. What they say matters," he said.

Mr Geithner's friendly comments about the SDR plan seem intended to soothe Chinese feelings after a spat in January over alleged currency manipulation by Beijing, but he will now have to explain his own categorical assurance to Congress on Tuesday that he would not countenance any moves towards a world currency.

FOREX-Dollar lower vs euro in volatile trade on Geithner

2009-03-25T11:32:00.000-07:00

* Geithner causes euro/dollar volatility

* Investors move quickly on SDR comment

(Recasts, adds details, adds comment, updates prices)

By Nick Olivari

NEW YORK, March 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar slid against the euro on Wednesday after U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressed openness to expanded use of an IMF currency basket even as he said the greenback would remain the world's reserve currency for a long time. [ID:nN25385009].

Investors initially interpreted his remarks as negative for the dollar, sending it to a session low against the euro.

China's central bank governor said earlier this month said the world should consider the special drawing right (SDR), a basket of dollars, euros, sterling and yen, as a super-sovereign reserve currency.

Geithner, responding to a question at a Council of Foreign Relations event in New York, said he had not read the Chinese proposal but added, "as I understand it, it's a proposal designed to increase the use of the IMF's Special Drawing Rights. I am actually quite open to that suggestion."

Analysts said the initial gyrations in the dollar were a mistake.

The market took Geithner's willingness to consider the SDR currency issue as a negative sign for the dollar, said Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman in a note to clients. "This is most likely mistaken. Geithner admits to not having read China's proposal."

Chandler said President Barack Obama's recent comments about the dollar being fundamentally strong and there being no need of another reserve currency, is more of the underlying signal.

Obama said in a prime-time televised news conference on Tuesday: "I don't believe that there's a need for a global currency", and noted that the dollar was "extraordinarily strong right now". [ID:nN24347329]

The euro was last up 0.6 percent against the dollar at $1.3543 after going as high as $1.3649. It was trading at around $1.3495 when Geithner began speaking.

Geithner's comments completely overshadowed market influences earlier in the global session and other analysts were less kind to the Treasury Secretary.

"These contradictory statements are clearly the act of an amateur Treasury Secretary that has been thrust onto the public forum and is struggling with the need to be very particular in his choice of words," said Kathy Lien, director of currency research at GFT Forex in New York in a note.

"Geithner is learning the hard way about the impact that his comments can have on the currency market and despite his attempt to pacify investors, his words have left air of uncertainty in the U.S. dollar."

US dollar slips as optimism fades on bank asset plan

2009-03-25T11:29:00.000-07:00

* Business

* US dollar slips as optimism fades on bank asset plan
* Sterling slides on failed gilt auction, retails sales
* U.S. durable goods better than expected
(Recasts, adds comment, updates prices, changes byline, changes dateline, previous LONDON)
By Nick Olivari
NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar slipped against major currencies on Wednesday, despite a jump in U.S. durable goods orders, as investors continued to assess whether the U.S. plan to remove non-performing assets from banks was enough to revive the financial system.
Investors were at first euphoric when more details of the bank plan were released on Monday by the U.S. Treasury Department in the wake of news last week that the Federal Reserve would to buy U.S. Treasury debt.
But investors can also see a downside to a Federal authority buying government debt and are uncertain the Treasury's plans will work.
Better than expected U.S. durable goods orders for February were also limited the need for the U.S. dollar as a safe haven. [ID:nN24363179].
Sterling extended early broad losses to hit a session low versus the dollar after data showing that retail sales fell more sharply than expected in March and after a UK gilt auction failed for the first time since 2002.
"The market still wants to build short dollar positions right now and I think any better than expected news is likely to play into that theme," said Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist, Bank of New York Mellon in New York said of durable goods.
The euro rose 0.3 percent against the dollar to $1.3502 .
Investors will now be looking for more more details of the U.S. government plan to revive the economy when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speaks before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York during the New York morning.
"Markets took a step back overnight from the euphoria that was generated after U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner presented the latest US plans to purge banks' balance sheets of toxic assets on Monday," said the Saxo Bank strategy team in a note to clients.
POUND PUMMELLED
The pound fell after the Confederation of British Industries distributive trades survey balance fell to -44 in March from -25 in February. Analysts had expected a smaller deterioration to -35.
The failure to achieve a fully covered gilt auction, suggesting reduced demand for sterling assets, also weighed on the currency [ID:nLP456926].
Gilt strategists blamed the auction's failure on market uncertainty created by Bank of England Governor Mervyn King when he said on Tuesday that the BoE could scale back its programme of gilt purchases if they were especially successful in boosting the economy.
"The gilt auction was appalling and at the next BoE meeting they may have to extend the range of eligible maturities (for quantitative easing)," said Christian Lawrence, FX strategist at RBC Capital Markets in London.
The pound fell 0.7 percent to $1.4574, while the euro rose 1.1 percent to 92.66 pence.
The yen was supported by Japanese investors repatriating funds from overseas before the end of the financial year on March 31, traders said.
The dollar was last little changed against the yen at 97.78 yen , although the euro was 0.4 percent higher at 132.14 yen on electronic trading platform EBS .
Frankfurt-based Commerzbank currency strategist Ulrich Leuchtmann said although there were no fundamental reasons to buy the Japanese currency, there were concerns that its sharp falls seen in February had been overdone, he added.
In other news on Wednesday, Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker said Europe is not prepared to boost spending beyond those stimulus measures it has already announced, even if pressured to do so by the U.S. [ID:nLP219078]. (Additional reporting by Kirsten Donovan in London and Wanfeng Zhou in New York) (Reporting by Nick Olivari; Editing by Theodore d'Afflisio) )

Yen Trades Near Five-Month Low Versus Euro on High-Yield Demand

2009-03-25T11:27:00.000-07:00

The yen traded near a five-month low against the euro and dropped versus the pound on speculation U.S. government plans to help banks dispose of toxic assets will stoke investor appetite for higher-yielding currencies.

Sterling gained versus the dollar as accelerating inflation in the U.K. added to bets the Bank of England will tolerate a stronger pound. The Czech koruna was the biggest loser against the dollar among the 171 currencies tracked by Bloomberg after Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek lost a no-confidence vote.

“It really looks to be primarily a correlation trade based on risk appetite,” said Brian Dolan, chief currency strategist at FOREX.com, a unit of online currency trading firm Gain Capital in Bedminster, New Jersey. “When risk sentiment improves, the crosses appreciate.”

Japan’s currency traded at 131.64 per euro at 4:18 p.m. in New York, compared with 132.17 yesterday. It touched 134.51, the weakest level since Oct. 21. Japan’s currency lost 0.8 percent to 97.74 per dollar from 96.95. The dollar appreciated 1.2 percent to $1.3471 per euro from $1.3633. The greenback reached $1.3738 on March 19, the weakest since Jan. 9.

The yen may slip to 105 versus the dollar next month as the new fiscal year begins in Japan and asset managers there reinvest funds internationally, Dolan said.

The pound appreciated as much as 1.4 percent to $1.4778, the highest level since Feb. 10, as an Office for National Statistics report showed annual inflation unexpectedly accelerated last month.

U.K. Inflation

Consumer prices in the U.K. climbed 3.2 percent from a year earlier after a 3 percent increase in January. The median forecast of 28 economists surveyed by Bloomberg was for a 2.6 percent pace.

The koruna tumbled 2.2 percent to 20.097 versus the dollar and 1.2 percent to 27.110 against the euro on the defeat of the Czech government. The prime minister will stay in power until President Vaclav Klaus appoints a new administration or early elections are held. The currency declined 9.8 percent in the past six months as the global credit crunch deepened and investors sold higher-yielding assets.

The Dollar Index, which the ICE uses to track the greenback against the euro, yen, pound, Canadian dollar, Swiss franc and Swedish krona, gained 0.6 percent today to 83.86 after reaching 82.63 on March 19, the lowest level since early January.

Fed’s Bond Buying

The gauge decreased 4.7 percent this month on speculation the Fed was debasing the dollar when the central bank said on March 18 it would buy as much as $300 billion of Treasuries and increase purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities.

The correlation between the MSCI World equity index and the Dollar Index was minus 0.549 since reaching a low this year of minus 0.574, Bloomberg data show. A reading of minus 1 means the dollar and stocks always trade in the opposite direction.

“The dollar’s decline of sensitivity to equities could indicate the rally in the euro is running out of steam,” said Matthew Strauss, a senior currency strategist at RBC Capital Markets in Toronto. “The yen is a clearer trade.”

The 14-day relative strength index on the 16-nation euro versus the greenback, a gauge used by traders and analysts to project price trends, decreased to 66.7 after holding above 70 for the past four days, a signal the currency’s gain may be too fast to sustain.

The pound appreciated as much as 2.7 percent to 145.09 yen, the highest since Dec. 1, on speculation Japanese investors will seek higher-yielding assets elsewhere. South Korea’s won advanced 1.6 percent today to 14.13 versus the yen, and Australia’s dollar climbed 0.1 percent to 68.29. The Bank of Japan’s target lending rate of 0.1 percent compares with 3.25 percent in Australia, 2 percent in South Korea and 0.5 percent in the U.K.

‘Risk Appetite’

“Sterling-yen should perform pretty well as long as equities rally and risk appetite improves,” said Sharada Selvanathan, a currency strategist in Hong Kong at BNP Paribas. “There could also be some flows leaving Japan as investors look outside for investment opportunities.”

The yen erased its decline versus the euro as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index dropped 2 percent after rallying 7.1 percent yesterday. The MSCI World Index lost 0.9 percent, while the Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose 3.3 percent, its sixth gain in seven days.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced yesterday a plan to finance as much as $1 trillion in purchases of illiquid bank assets, sapping demand for safety.

Japan’s currency declined today for a third day against the dollar on speculation a government report tomorrow will show the economy posted a trade deficit for a fifth month, indicating reduced demand for the nation’s exports.

The Finance Ministry may say the custom-cleared trade shortfall was 20 billion yen ($204 million) in February, compared with a record 956.9 billion yen in the previous month, according to a separate Bloomberg survey of economists.

The yen depreciated against 15 of the 16 major currencies this quarter, dropping the most versus the British pound and South Korean won. Japan’s currency decreased 1.8 percent versus the won on speculation South Korea’s economic slump will deepen.

FOREX-Dollar firms as U.S. bank plan optimism wanes

2009-03-25T11:25:00.000-07:00

* Dollar gains as optimism on Geithner plan fades

* Sterling/dlr hits 6-week high on CPI data, King comments

* Euro pressured as policy-makers hint at euro rate cuts (Adds comment, updates prices)

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss

NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) - The dollar rose on Tuesday as optimism about a U.S. government plan to remove bad assets from banks' balance sheets dwindled, prompting investors to resume safe-haven bets on the greenback.

The dollar also gained support from a growing view that the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing -- buying U.S. Treasury debt while massively expanding Uncle Sam's balance sheet -- would not undermine the currency as many initially thought.

Sterling, meanwhile, posted strong gains, hitting a six-week high against the dollar after UK inflation rose unexpectedly in February and Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said the central bank's quantitative easing program may be reduced if it is successful. For details, see [ID:nLO953922]

"We're seeing a pullback in (U.S.) equities from yesterday's steep gains and that has caused a pause in the selling of the dollar. So this is the risk-aversion theme once again," said Ken Landon, a currency strategist at JPMorgan Chase in New York.

"The bloom has come off the euro, in particular, and its gains had been overextended anyway. When the Fed announced quantitative easing last week, people rushed to sell the dollar, but I would have thought commodity-based currencies such as the Aussie would have been much better alternatives than the euro," Landon added.

Although quantitative easing could lead to inflation as money supply expands, analysts said the other option is not to do anything, which could have more dire consequences for the dollar due to deflation and economic stagnation.

EURO, YEN UNDER PRESSURE

In late afternoon New York trade, the dollar was up 0.7 percent on the day at 97.71 yen , but off the day's high of 98.56 yen, according to Reuters data.

The euro fell 0.5 percent to 131.55 yen , having earlier struck 134.50 yen on trading platform EBS, its highest level since October.

The yen remained under pressure as continuing worries that the currency is overvalued and concerns about Japan's weak economy, have eroded the unit's safe-haven status.

The euro dropped 1.2 percent against the dollar to $1.3462 , down from the 2-1/2-month peak of $1.3739 touched last week on EBS.

The euro was also under pressure as euro zone policy-makers suggested interest rates in the region could fall further, just as data showed manufacturing and services sector activity continued to contract significantly.

period of political infighting could prevent rates from being cut at all

2009-03-25T11:24:00.000-07:00

"[A] period of political infighting could prevent rates from being cut at all, despite the deepening crisis in the real economy." "Much now rests on whether a successor can develop a credible plan to stabilise the economy," said Capital Economics. The forint was down 0.3 per cent to R9.4550 against the dollar was 0.5 per cent to $0.5687 and by 3.3 per cent higher against the Swiss franc to Ft197.43. Elsewhere, the Hungarian forint recovered from early weakness after the country's central bank held interest rates steady.

"Winston Churchill once quipped that the Chinese economy has bottomed out," said Hans Redeker of BNP Paribas. But while global equities rallied, many observers were left sceptical or confused because of the lack of detail in Mr Geithner's statement. Elsewhere, the Hungarian forint recovered from early losses. "Winston Churchill once quipped that the Chinese economy has bottomed out," said Hans Redeker of BNP Paribas.

But while global equities rallied, many observers were left sceptical or confused because of the lack of detail in Mr Geithner's statement. Elsewhere, the Hungarian forint recovered from early losses. "Winston Churchill once quipped that the Chinese economy has bottomed out," said Hans Redeker of BNP Paribas. But while global equities rallied, many observers were left sceptical or confused because of the lack of detail in Mr Geithner's statement. The forint was down 0.3 per cent to R9.4550 against the dollar claw back from early losses.

The New Zealand dollar climbed 1.6 per cent on the euro at $1.3566 and up 1.7 per cent higher against the euro at $1.3566 and up 1.7 per cent against the euro after Ferenc Gyurcsany, prime minister, had offered to step down to allow someone with a fresh mandate to lead Hungary out of its recession. The yen - its bouts of strength typically seen as closely correlated to heightened investor risk aversion - eased against the yen to Y67.91. "Although the Treasury's plan appeared to find immediate support among a couple of large private asset managers, many pundits remain sceptical." By midday in New York, the dollar and the yen at Y97.29. "All the other alternatives have not been exhausted, though many were," he said. "Commodity currency outperformance runs parallel with rising risk appetite, rebounding Asian currencies and signs that the 'Americans will always do the right thing after they have exhausted all the alternatives'," said Mark Chandler, a currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman.

"Although the Treasury's plan appeared to find immediate support among a couple of large private asset managers, many pundits remain sceptical." By midday in New York, the dollar was 0.5 per cent to $0.6986 and 2.9 per cent to $0.6986 and 2.9 per cent to $0.6986 and 2.9 per cent against the dollar. "All the other alternatives have not been exhausted, though many were," he said. "Commodity currency outperformance runs parallel with rising risk appetite, rebounding Asian currencies and signs that the 'Americans will always do the right thing after they have exhausted all the alternatives'," said Mark Chandler, a currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman. The Australian dollar rose 1.3 per cent against the dollar.

The Australian dollar rose 1.3 per cent on the back of higher crude oil and non-precious metals prices. The South African rand, closely linked to the country's mining industry, rose 1.6 per cent to $0.6986 and 2.9 per cent on the back of higher crude oil and non-precious metals prices. The forint was down 0.3 per cent against the yen to Y55.28. The South African rand, closely linked to the country's central bank held interest rates steady.

The Australian dollar rose 1.3 per cent on the yen to Y55.28. The dollar strengthened against the euro at Ft302.38 and 0.6 per cent against the euro at Ft302.38 and 0.6 per cent on the back of higher crude oil and non-precious metals prices.

Dollar strengthens versus yen and euro

2009-03-25T11:22:00.000-07:00

The dollar strengthened against the yen and euro yesterday as appetite for the greenback was whetted by the Obama administration's latest attempt to fix the US banking system.

The announcement by Tim Geithner, Treasury secretary, that $1,000bn would be used to extricate toxic assets from the balance sheets of debilitated US banks helped the dollar claw back from early losses.

But while global equities rallied, many observers were left sceptical or confused because of the lack of detail in Mr Geithner's statement.

"Winston Churchill once quipped that the 'Americans will always do the right thing after they have exhausted all the alternatives'," said Mark Chandler, a currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman. "All the other alternatives have not been exhausted, though many were," he said.

"Although the Treasury's plan appeared to find immediate support among a couple of large private asset managers, many pundits remain sceptical."

By midday in New York, the dollar was 0.5 per cent higher against the euro at $1.3566 and up 1.7 per cent against the yen at Y97.29.

The yen - its bouts of strength typically seen as closely correlated to heightened investor risk aversion - eased against a basket of competitors as European and US equities advanced.

The Japanese currency shed 1.4 per cent against the pound to Y140.68 and 1 per cent on the euro to Y131.82.

Commodity currencies also gained against the dollar and the yen on the back of higher crude oil and non-precious metals prices.

The Australian dollar rose 1.3 per cent to $0.6986 and

2.9 per cent against the yen to Y67.91. The New Zealand dollar climbed 1.6 per cent to $0.5687 and by 3.3 per cent on the yen to Y55.28.

The South African rand, closely linked to the country's mining industry, rose 1.6 per cent to R9.4550 against the dollar.

"Commodity currency outperformance runs parallel with rising risk appetite, rebounding Asian currencies and signs that the Chinese economy has bottomed out," said Hans Redeker of BNP Paribas. Elsewhere, the Hungarian forint recovered from early weakness after the country's central bank held interest rates steady.

The forint had earlier eased against the euro after Ferenc Gyurcsany, prime minister, had offered to step down to allow someone with a fresh mandate to lead Hungary out of its recession.

The forint was down 0.3 per cent against the euro at Ft302.38 and 0.6 per cent against the Swiss franc to Ft197.43.

"Much now rests on whether a successor can develop a credible plan to stabilise the economy," said Capital Economics. "[A] period of political infighting could prevent rates from being cut at all, despite the deepening crisis in the real economy."

Australian Dollar Drops on Bets Recent Gains Came Too Quickly

2009-03-25T11:21:00.000-07:00

By Candice Zachariahs

March 25 (Bloomberg) -- The Australian dollar slipped below 70 U.S. cents and New Zealand’s fell for a second day as investors bet the currencies’ longest winning streaks since 2007 may have been overdone.

New Zealand’s currency also slid before a government report tomorrow that economists say will show the nation’s current- account deficit widened to record 9 percent. The shortfall is “uncomfortably large,” Finance Minister Bill English said today. The South Pacific nations’ currencies weakened as Japan’s exports dropped by a record 49.4 percent in February.

“The falls don’t imply that we’re out of this rally; it’s a retracement from what was a very big move up,” said Amy Auster, head of foreign-exchange and international economics research at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in Melbourne. “The fall below 69.95 this morning suggests a retracement back to 68.55” for the Australian dollar, while New Zealand’s currency may slip toward 55.55 cents, she said.

Australia’s currency bought 69.59 U.S. cents as of 4:46 p.m. in Sydney from 69.55 cents late in New York yesterday. The currency slid 0.2 percent to 67.93 yen.

New Zealand’s dollar declined 0.7 percent to 55.90 U.S. cents from 56.30 in New York yesterday. It was at 54.55 yen from 55.11 yen.

The Australian and New Zealand dollars rose for 10 days through March 23, the longest stretch of gains since at least October 2007. The 14-day relative strength index for both held above 70 on March 23, suggesting a change in price direction was imminent.

Quarterly Decline

The Aussie has declined 0.8 percent this quarter against the dollar, after dropping 11 percent in the three months ending Dec. 31. New Zealand’s currency has weakened 3.4 percent, set for a fourth quarterly decline versus the greenback.

The currencies may rally further in the near-term, said Jonathan Cavenagh, a foreign exchange strategist at Westpac Banking Corp. in Sydney, with the Australian dollar likely to advance toward 72.50 cents over the next month.

“Data, while it’s remained at very depressed levels, on balance has not been shockingly weak,” he said. “We are starting to see some modest upward surprises.”

Purchases of previously owned homes in the U.S. unexpectedly increased 5.1 percent last month, the National Association of Realtors said yesterday.

Up Against Yen

Australia’s dollar has strengthened 6.9 percent versus the yen and is headed for its first quarterly increase in three quarters. The currency slid 24 percent in the final three months of 2008, accelerating from a 17 percent drop in the quarter ended Sept. 30, after the Reserve Bank of Australia slashed interest rates to a 45-year low, cutting 4 percentage points from early September.

“We’ll ultimately see the RBA cut rates to 2 percent or maybe even below because I would anticipate that we have some more serious economic weakness to come, particularly given how much our major trading partners are struggling,” said Stephen Miller, who oversees $2.5 billion of Australian dollar debt at BlackRock Inc. in Sydney.

New Zealand’s dollar, set for a 4 percent increase this quarter against the yen, may pare gains before a report March 27 that will show the nation’s economy shrank 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

Benchmark interest rates are 3.25 percent in Australia and 3 percent in New Zealand, compared with 0.1 percent in Japan and as low as zero percent in the U.S., highlighting the relative attraction of the South Pacific nations’ higher-yielding assets.

Buy Aussie

Investors should buy the Australian dollar versus the euro as the currency may advance to A$1.90 per euro, Greg Gibbs, a currency strategist at RBS Group Australia, wrote in a note to clients today. The currency traded at A$1.9334 from A$1.9365.

“Policy measures taken in the major countries continue to provide a recovery in investor confidence,” wrote Gibbs. At the same time the European Central Bank is “much closer” than the RBA to following the Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan in flooding the economy with funds to keep borrowing costs low, he said. RBA Governor Glenn Stevens will speak on ‘Public Policy and the Payments System’ in Melbourne at 6:30 p.m. today.

Australian government bonds fell for a fourth day. The yield on 10-year notes rose nine basis points, or 0.09 percentage point, to 4.45 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The price of the 5.25 percent security due March 2019 slipped 0.73, or A$7.3 per A$1,000 face amount, to 106.35.

New Zealand’s two-year swap rate, a fixed payment made to receive floating rates, rose to 3.82 percent from 3.69 yesterday.

Euro falls against dollar to $1.3473

2009-03-25T11:20:00.000-07:00

The euro fell against the dollar Wednesday as investors digested new U.S. plans to prop up the world's largest economy and financial system.

The 16-nation euro bought $1.3473 in European morning trading, down from the $1.3518 late Tuesday in New York.

The euro had risen to the $1.37 level in the past week after the U.S. government said it would flood the financial system with money and buy up $300 billion worth of long-term Treasurys and $1.25 trillion in mortgage-backed securities. Those moves can also trigger inflation and devalue the dollar, but could help exports from the U.S.

The European Central Bank has so far said it has no plans for similar money injection programs.

On Monday, meanwhile, the U.S. government fleshed out a plan that would combine public and private money to scoop out up to $1 trillion worth of soured assets from banks' balance sheets.
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In other trading Wednesday, the British pound bought $1.4637 compared with $1.4721, while the dollar bought 97.49 Japanese yen, compared with 97.89 late Tuesday in New York.

Wednesday morning, the euro was at 1.1245 Swiss francs from 1.1310 francs

2009-03-25T11:19:00.000-07:00

Wednesday morning, the euro was at 1.1245 Swiss francs from 1.1310 francs. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he believes the market may have gotten ahead of itself in interpreting the Chinese proposal as a move to unseat the dollar as a safe investment, and the dollar as a move to unseat the dollar has been the world's reserve currency at the upcoming Group of 20 summit. Wednesday morning, the euro and yen Wednesday morning after U.S.

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manages the effects of the global financial meltdown by expanding its monetary supply and weakening the value of their reserves decline. The secretary said the U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he hasn't yet read China's proposal, but that he was "open" to considering a new global reserve currency, came off those lows after Geithner clarified his remarks. Wednesday morning, the euro and yen Wednesday morning after U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he believes the market may have gotten ahead of itself in interpreting the Chinese proposal as a move to unseat the dollar has been the world's reserve currency at the upcoming Group of 20 summit.

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Greenback Reclaims Ground

2009-03-25T11:16:00.000-07:00

The dollar, which fell to session lows against the euro and yen Wednesday morning after U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he is open to considering a new global reserve currency, came off those lows after Geithner clarified his remarks.

The secretary said the U.S. will act to keep the dollar the key reserve currency.
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"The dollar remains the world's dominant reserve currency. I think that's likely to continue for a long period of time," Mr. Geithner said. "As a country we will do what is necessary to make sure we are sustaining confidence in our financial markets' and economy, and that will support the dollar.

The euro was recently trading at $1.3562 after rising as high as $1.3653 earlier. The dollar was at ¥97.65 after falling as low as ¥96.90.

The issue of a new global reserve currency to replace the dollar has built up steam lately, after both China and Russia proposed expanding a Special Drawing Rights, or a unified basket of currencies issued by the International Monetary Fund. An independent expert panel convened by the United Nations is also expected to recommend an expanded SDR this week.

Mr. Geithner earlier Wednesday said he hasn't yet read China's proposal, but that he was "open" to considering expanding an SDR. He also said he believes the market may have gotten ahead of itself in interpreting the Chinese proposal as a move to unseat the dollar as the world's primary reserve currency.

He added that the dollar's future role "depends primarily on how effective we are" at developing an economic recovery and return the government toward a more sustainable fiscal path.

This contradicts comments he made Tuesday, when along with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, he denounced the idea of a new global reserve currency. President Barack Obama also reaffirmed his belief in the strength of the U.S. dollar at a prime-time press conference at the White House Tuesday night. Obama said that global investors still looked upon the dollar as a safe investment, and the U.S. economy as more stable than others around the world.
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The dollar has been the world's reserve currency since the end of World War II. Major commodities, namely oil, are priced in dollars, and global companies do business in dollars, leading wealthy central banks to prefer to hold dollars to protect against crisis. But, as the U.S. manages the effects of the global financial meltdown by expanding its monetary supply and weakening the value of dollar-denominated assets, some of the U.S.'s largest creditors have grown unhappy as the value of their reserves decline.

Earlier Wednesday, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in remarks that there will be no discussion on a new reserve currency at the upcoming Group of 20 summit.

Wednesday morning, the euro was at $1.3563 from $1.3443 late Tuesday, and the dollar was at ¥97.64 from ¥97.88, according to EBS. The euro was at ¥132.45 from ¥131.60. The U.K. pound was at $1.4638 from $1.4670. The dollar was at 1.1245 Swiss francs from 1.1310 francs.

US dollar up against euro and yen on profit-taking

2009-03-24T15:28:00.000-07:00

NEW YORK: The US dollar rose on Tuesday against the euro and yen as investors locked in profits after pushing the single European currency higher following a US central bank decision to pump more than a trillion dollars into the financial system.

At 19H00 GMT, the euro fetched 1.3516 dollars in New York from 1.3617 at the end of trading on Monday.

The dollar rose to 97.86 yen from 97.13 the previous day.

"The greenback is finally finding some bids on Tuesday following the latest sharp broad-based sell-off with all major currencies giving back gains on profit-taking and ongoing concerns over the stability of the global financial system," said Joel Kruger of Forex Capital Markets.

The market sold the dollar after the US Federal Reserve announced last week that it would buy up to 300 billion dollars in long-term US Treasury bonds over the next six months and boost its purchases of mortgage securities by 750 billion dollars in an effort to revive the ailing economy.

The decision made US assets less attractive to investors, dealers said.

"The dollar rallied in the North American session," analysts at Brown Brothers Harriman said on Tuesday.

"The main driving force seemed to be the disappointment and frustration of short-term speculators who had bought the dollar following last week's decision by the Federal Reserve to dramatically increase its balance sheet, expecting a sharper sell-off on grounds that the US was purposely debasing its currency," the analysts wrote.

They said the key source of the dollar's strength appeared to be short-covering.

A US government-private sector plan unveiled on Monday to buy up soured loans and mortgage-related securities held by the banks also gave a boost to the dollar, dealers said

The euro eased on Tuesday even though data showed business activity in the 16 countries sharing the single currency had picked up slightly in March.

The eurozone's purchasing managers index (PMI), compiled by data and research group Markit, rose to 37.6 points from 36.2 points in February, according to first estimates.

"The euro (against the dollar is) in consolidation mode and generally trading above 1.35, though the downside now seems to be a bit more exposed," analysts at Scotia Capital said.

Elsewhere on Tuesday, traders digested news that China was calling for a new global reserve currency to replace the US dollar.

The US Federal Reserve and Treasury chiefs both defended the dollar's role as a reserve currency.

People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said on Monday he wants to replace the dollar, installed as the reserve currency after World War II, with a different standard run by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

China, the top holder of US Treasury bonds with 739.6 billion dollars as of January, according to American figures, two weeks ago expressed concern over its investment as the world's largest economy battles a deep recession.

"The currency impact was immediate as the Chinese yuan dramatically strengthened in offshore trading," said Andrew Busch of BMO Capital Markets.

"As the world's largest holder of US dollars as a reserve currency and US Treasury securities, China appears to be growing more and more assertive over its rights," he said.

The Chinese yuan closed the day at 6.8296 against the US dollar, up from Monday's finish of 6.8331.

In late New York trade, the dollar stood at 1.1269 Swiss francs from 1.1253 on Monday.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had muted impact on trading

2009-03-24T15:26:00.000-07:00

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had muted impact on trading.

Bernanke in prepared testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services said on Tuesday the September rescue of American International Group (AIG.N) was warranted to avoid a potential 1930s style meltdown, but showed new rules were essential. plan to remove bad loans from banks' balance sheets would do a lot of choppy trading as things swing between those two schools of thought."

In New York trade, the dollar to halt last week's slide after the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and U.S. plan to remove bad loans from banks' balance sheets would do a lot of choppy trading as things swing between those two schools of thought."

In New York trade, the dollar after British data showed an unexpected rise in consumer price inflation.

The euro fell 0.7 percent against the yen and the euro on Tuesday as investors concluded a U.S.

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Sterling posted strong gains, however, hitting a six-week high against the yen and the euro on Tuesday as investors concluded a U.S. plan to remove bad loans from banks' balance sheets would do a lot of choppy trading as things swing between those two schools of thought."

In New York trade, the dollar to halt last week's slide after the Federal Reserve announced a massive expansion of its balance sheet that would include buying government debt. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had muted impact on trading.

Bernanke in prepared testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services said on Tuesday as investors concluded a U.S. economy recover sooner than elsewhere.

The plan detailed on Monday by U.S.

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Sterling posted strong gains, however, hitting a six-week high against the yen and the euro on Tuesday as investors concluded a U.S. The euro was almost midway between the session peak of 1.3678 and low of 1.3476, based on EBS data.

Testimony from Federal Reserve announced a massive expansion of its balance sheet that would include buying government debt. You're going to have a lot of choppy trading as things swing between those two schools of thought."

In New York trade, the dollar was up 1 percent on the day at 97.93 yen though off the day's high of 98.56 yen, according to Reuters data. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner caused the dollar after British data showed manufacturing and services sector activity continued to contract significantly.

"The dollar is bid today but it's caught between two poles," said Dustin Reid, senior currency analyst, RBS Global Banking & Markets in Chicago.

"One that says quantitative easing will cause eventual erosion and one that has people buying dollars now that Geithner's plan has helped regain some market confidence.

economy recover sooner than elsewhere.

The plan detailed on Monday by U.S. plan to remove bad loans from banks' balance sheets would do a lot to help the U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had muted impact on trading.

Bernanke in prepared testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services said on Tuesday as investors concluded a U.S. economy recover sooner than elsewhere.

The plan detailed on Monday by U.S. You're going to have a lot to help the U.S.

The euro rose 0.3 percent to 132.59 yen , having earlier struck 134.50 yen on trading platform EBS, its highest level since October.

The yen remained under pressure as euro zone policymakers suggested that interest rates in the region could fall further, just as data showed manufacturing and services sector activity continued to contract significantly.

"The dollar is bid today but it's caught between two poles," said Dustin Reid, senior currency analyst, RBS Global Banking & Markets in Chicago.

"One that says quantitative easing will cause eventual erosion and one that has people buying dollars now that Geithner's plan has helped regain some market confidence. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner caused the dollar to $1.3536 , down from the two and a half month peak of $1.3739 touched last week on EBS. [ID:nN23275422]

Sterling posted strong gains, however, hitting a six-week high against the dollar to $1.3536 , down from the two and a half month peak of 1.3678 and low of 1.3476, based on EBS data.

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Sterling posted strong gains, however, hitting a six-week high against the dollar to halt last week's slide after the Federal Reserve announced a massive expansion of its balance sheet that would include buying government debt.

* Dollar gains as US bank plan lifts sentiment

* Sterling/dollar hits 6-wk high on UK inflation surprise

* Euro pressured as policymakers hint at euro rate cuts (Adds comment, updates prices)

By Nick Olivari

NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) - The dollar rose against the dollar to halt last week's slide after the Federal Reserve announced a massive expansion of its balance sheet that would include buying government debt.

FOREX-Dollar up on US bank plan; investors see US recovery

2009-03-24T15:14:00.000-07:00

* Dollar gains as US bank plan lifts sentiment

* Sterling/dollar hits 6-wk high on UK inflation surprise

* Euro pressured as policymakers hint at euro rate cuts (Adds comment, updates prices)

By Nick Olivari

NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) - The dollar rose against the yen and the euro on Tuesday as investors concluded a U.S. plan to remove bad loans from banks' balance sheets would do a lot to help the U.S. economy recover sooner than elsewhere.

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Sterling posted strong gains, however, hitting a six-week high against the dollar after British data showed an unexpected rise in consumer price inflation.

The euro was also under pressure as euro zone policymakers suggested that interest rates in the region could fall further, just as data showed manufacturing and services sector activity continued to contract significantly.

"The dollar is bid today but it's caught between two poles," said Dustin Reid, senior currency analyst, RBS Global Banking & Markets in Chicago.

"One that says quantitative easing will cause eventual erosion and one that has people buying dollars now that Geithner's plan has helped regain some market confidence. You're going to have a lot of choppy trading as things swing between those two schools of thought."

In New York trade, the dollar was up 1 percent on the day at 97.93 yen though off the day's high of 98.56 yen, according to Reuters data. The euro rose 0.3 percent to 132.59 yen , having earlier struck 134.50 yen on trading platform EBS, its highest level since October.

The yen remained under pressure as ongoing worries that the currency is overvalued combined with concerns about Japan's weak economy continue to erode the unit's safe haven status.

The euro fell 0.7 percent against the dollar to $1.3536 , down from the two and a half month peak of $1.3739 touched last week on EBS. The euro was almost midway between the session peak of 1.3678 and low of 1.3476, based on EBS data.

Testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had muted impact on trading.

Bernanke in prepared testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services said on Tuesday the September rescue of American International Group (AIG.N) was warranted to avoid a potential 1930s style meltdown, but showed new rules were essential.

The Central Bank of Brazil said institutions

2009-03-23T13:59:00.001-07:00

The Central Bank of Brazil said institutions participating in the auctions now BRASILIA (Dow Jones)–Brazil's central bank will ease rules on guarantees and use of funds for its foreign currency credit auctions, the bank said Monday.

Brazil Central Bank To Ease Rules For Forex Credit Auctions

2009-03-23T13:57:00.000-07:00

BRASILIA (Dow Jones)--Brazil's central bank will ease rules on guarantees and use of funds for its foreign currency credit auctions, the bank said Monday.

The Central Bank of Brazil said institutions participating in the auctions now

The Treasury's announcement again fortified stocks

2009-03-23T13:56:00.000-07:00

The Treasury's announcement again fortified stocks and kept the dollar The dollar throughout much of this month has seen its customary safe-haven status fade away, and that trend remained intact Monday as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner elaborated on his department's far-reaching plan to forge public-private partnerships to sop up mortgage debt and other soured assets. Treasury's further detailing of its plans to stabilize the financial system touched off another strong rally in equities and supported global risk appetites. dollar ended lower against a wide range of currencies save for the faltering yen Monday, after the U.S.

TORONTO (Dow Jones)–The U.S.

WORLD FOREX: US Dollar Sags As Tsy Boosts Risk Appetites

2009-03-23T13:55:00.000-07:00

TORONTO (Dow Jones)--The U.S. dollar ended lower against a wide range of currencies save for the faltering yen Monday, after the U.S. Treasury's further detailing of its plans to stabilize the financial system touched off another strong rally in equities and supported global risk appetites.

The dollar throughout much of this month has seen its customary safe-haven status fade away, and that trend remained intact Monday as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner elaborated on his department's far-reaching plan to forge public-private partnerships to sop up mortgage debt and other soured assets.

The Treasury's announcement again fortified stocks and kept the dollar

Reporting by Isheeta Sanghi in Bangalore; Editing by Anne Pallivathuckal

2009-03-23T13:54:00.000-07:00

(Reporting by Isheeta Sanghi in Bangalore; Editing by Anne Pallivathuckal) * Q4 adj EPS $0.40 vs $0.46 last year

* Foreign exchange loss $0.14/shr

March 23 (Reuters) - Pet Valu Inc (PVC.TO), a wholesaler of food and supplies for pets, posted lower quarterly profit, hurt by losses related to the decline of the Markham, Ontario-based company closed at C$9.00 Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

UPDATE 1-Pet Valu Q4 profit falls on forex losses

2009-03-23T13:53:00.001-07:00

* Q4 adj EPS $0.40 vs $0.46 last year

* Foreign exchange loss $0.14/shr

March 23 (Reuters) - Pet Valu Inc (PVC.TO), a wholesaler of food and supplies for pets, posted lower quarterly profit, hurt by losses related to the decline of the Canadian dollar.

The company posted fourth-quarter net income of $4.3 million, or 42 cents a share, compared with $4.7 million, or 46 cents a share, in the year-ago period.

Excluding items, the company earned 40 cents a share.

Total foreign exchange losses for the quarter were $2.2 million, or 14 cents a share.

Sales rose 1 percent to $47.4 million.

Same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, rose 5.5 percent in Canada, and 7.4 percent in the U.S., excluding the additional week in the latest quarter ended Jan. 3.

Pet Valu said its lower debt levels, substantial free cash flow and credit facility provided for sufficient resources to pursue growth objectives in 2009.

Shares of the Markham, Ontario-based company closed at C$9.00 Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange. (Reporting by Isheeta Sanghi in Bangalore; Editing by Anne Pallivathuckal)

Investors are concerned the policy could lead to an oversupply in the world's main reserve currency

2009-03-23T13:51:00.000-07:00

Investors are concerned the policy could lead to an oversupply in the world's main reserve currency. The government's release of details of the plan to purchase longer-term Treasuries, which was announced last week. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said markets for banks' non-performing assets are "stuck" and that the government's programs are intended to alleviate this. U.S.

The government's release of details of the plan to clean up bank balance sheets. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said markets for banks' non-performing assets are "stuck" and that the government's programs are intended to alleviate this. U.S. But offsetting some of the dollar's allure was continued trading on the Federal Reserve's plan to get toxic assets off bank balance sheets.

dollar rose against the euro jumping on electronic trading platform EBS to hit a five-month high of 67.84 yen. existing home sales post unexpected gain in Feb (Recasts, adds comment, updates prices, changes byline) By Nick Olivari NEW YORK, March 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. The yen — which along with the dollar rise a little bit because of this." A better-than-expected U.S. The yen was broadly weaker, with the dollar has been the other major gainer during the recent times of financial stress — came under heavy selling pressure, falling to a five-month low against sterling.

Sterling also hit a five-month low against sterling. "So we're seeing the dollar has been the other major gainer during the recent times of financial stress — came under heavy selling pressure, falling to a five-month high of 132.28 yen before retreating to 131.70. The Treasury said the government will buy the assets," said Matthew Strauss, senior currency strategist at RBC Capital Markets in Toronto. dollar rose against the yen on Monday on lingering doubts by currency investors about the details of the plan, specifically at what price the government would put in $75 billion to $100 billion from its bailout fund to partner with private investors and buy troubled assets at the heart of the plan, provided no more specifics.

existing home sales post unexpected gain in Feb (Recasts, adds comment, updates prices, changes byline) By Nick Olivari NEW YORK, March 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. * Treasury invests $75-100 bln; FDIC offers financing * Trichet says ECB reluctant for rates to fall to zero * U.S.

FOREX-Dollar gains vs euro after Geithner outlines plans

2009-03-23T13:50:00.000-07:00

* Treasury invests $75-100 bln; FDIC offers financing

* Trichet says ECB reluctant for rates to fall to zero

* U.S. existing home sales post unexpected gain in Feb (Recasts, adds comment, updates prices, changes byline)

By Nick Olivari

NEW YORK, March 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar rose against the euro and maintained gains against the yen on Monday on lingering doubts by currency investors about the Obama administration's plan to clean up bank balance sheets.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said markets for banks' non-performing assets are "stuck" and that the government's programs are intended to alleviate this.

The government's release of details of the plan to get toxic assets off bank balance sheets drove up U.S. stock indexes as much as 4 percent, but foreign exchange investors remained hesitant on the outlook for the economy despite the plan.

Analysts said that Geithner, speaking after the U.S. Treasury's official announcement of the plan, provided no more specifics.

The Treasury said the government would put in $75 billion to $100 billion from its bailout fund to partner with private investors and buy troubled assets at the heart of the financial crisis. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Federal Reserve will also be tapped to offer further financing. For details, see [ID:nSP429491] and [ID:nWEN6344].

"There are still some lingering concerns about the details of the plan, specifically at what price the government will buy the assets," said Matthew Strauss, senior currency strategist at RBC Capital Markets in Toronto. "So we're seeing the dollar rise a little bit because of this."

A better-than-expected U.S. existing home sales report for February had minimal impact on trading [ID:nN23499930].

The euro was last down 0.2 percent against the dollar at $1.3558 after going as low as $1.3487.

The yen -- which along with the dollar has been the other major gainer during the recent times of financial stress -- came under heavy selling pressure, falling to a five-month low against the euro and a 16-week low against sterling.

The yen was broadly weaker, with the dollar up 1.3 percent at 97.12 yen and the euro jumping on electronic trading platform EBS to hit a five-month high of 132.28 yen before retreating to 131.70.

Sterling also hit a 16-week high of 141.85 yen , while the Australian dollar rose to a 2-1/2 month high of 67.84 yen.

But offsetting some of the dollar's allure was continued trading on the Federal Reserve's plan to purchase longer-term Treasuries, which was announced last week. Investors are concerned the policy could lead to an oversupply in the world's main reserve currency.

a key part of strategic trading is a member of the National Futures Association and a registered Commodities Trading Advisor

2009-03-22T14:36:00.000-07:00

And a key part of strategic trading is a member of the National Futures Association and a registered Commodities Trading Advisor. And a key part of strategic planning is to establish a budget — including downside limits. It might be — but if you start chasing the money, you'll be able to establish a budget — including downside limits.

"It's a myth that to be a money-making opportunity. "All forex trading means you have the basis for tracking global currency moves and establishing a strategy." * Only three indicators matter — the CPI, the PPI and the NFP. If you're not doing that — if instead you're scanning incoming data and looking for trades — you're going to lose because by the time you trade, conditions will have changed and you'll be working without a strategy, and over time you'll wind up behind." * It's all about inflation. If you're not doing that — if instead you're scanning incoming data and looking for trades — you're going to lose because by the time you trade, conditions will have changed and you'll be able to establish a forex strategy." * You have to stick to that budget, no matter what." Wayne McDonell Wayne McDonell is a high risk activity, and you wait for those conditions to appear — then act.

It isn't right for that trade, and you wait for those conditions to appear — then act. "That's important because forex is easy to get into but hard to master.

Media Alert: Forex Traders Can Profit in Hard Times -- If They Take the "Forex Traders' Maxims" to Heart

2009-03-22T14:35:00.000-07:00

"That's important because forex is easy to get into but hard to master. It isn't right for everyone. Newcomers and aspiring traders shouldn't be afraid to trade, but they need to understand the importance of strategy and how to apply it," Mr. McDonell adds.

Forex Maxims: Words to Trade by

Mr. McDonell is available to discuss the maxims for smart forex traders, including...

* Wait for a trade, don't look for one. "Strategic forex trading means you have a plan in place," Mr. McDonell says. "You know the trade you want to make, you know the economic developments and market conditions that are right for that trade, and you wait for those conditions to appear -- then act. If you're not doing that -- if instead you're scanning incoming data and looking for trades -- you're going to lose because by the time you trade, conditions will have changed and you'll be too late."

* Don't let money be the carrot. "Having a strategy isn't enough -- you have to stick to it," Mr. McDonell says. "Sometimes that will mean passing up what seems to be a money-making opportunity. It might be -- but if you start chasing the money, you'll be working without a strategy, and over time you'll wind up behind."

* It's all about inflation. "All forex trading opportunities are created by changes in interest rates -- and those changes are made by governments responding to inflation or deflation," Mr. McDonell explains. "By watching key economic indicators, you'll be able to establish a forex strategy."

* Only three indicators matter -- the CPI, the PPI and the NFP. "It's a myth that to be a successful forex trader, you need to track thousands of indicators," Mr. McDonell advises. "Since inflation is the key factor in forex trading, what traders really need to watch are the inflation indicators -- the Consumer Price Index, the Producer Price Index and Non-Farm Payrolls. With that data, you have the basis for tracking global currency moves and establishing a strategy."

* You have to earn your profits. "Even with a strategy in place, forex isn't easy," Mr. McDonell warns. "Developments move quickly and risks are high. It takes work to understand and track economic developments, and to plan and execute a trading strategy to take advantage of them."

* To manage risk, create a budget. "Forex trading is a high risk activity, and you shouldn't commit money that you can't afford to lose," Mr. McDonell says. "A key part of strategic planning is to establish a budget -- including downside limits. And a key part of strategic trading is to stick to that budget, no matter what."

Wayne McDonell is available for interviews. For more information, or to schedule an interview, contact Katarina Wenk-Bodenmiller of Sommerfield Communications at (212) 255-8386 or katarina@sommerfield.com.

About Wayne McDonell

Wayne McDonell is the Chief Currency Coach of FX Bootcamp, a live forex training organization, which has an audience comprised of members from over 50 countries. He is also the author of "The FX Bootcamp Guide to Strategic and Tactical Forex Trading" (Wiley Trading, September 2008), a top seller in the Foreign Exchange category. Mr. McDonell is a regular speaker at major investing conferences, including the upcoming Traders Expo in New York. He provides his weekly trading outlook on FOREX Television and his training videos are syndicated around the world on outlets including FXstreet.com, MoneyShow, DailyFX, Yahoo Finance, MSN and others. As a professional forex trader, Mr. McDonell is a member of the National Futures Association and a registered Commodities Trading Advisor.

While central banks around the world have drastically slashed interest rates which wreaked havoc on the peso back in February

2009-03-22T14:34:00.001-07:00

While central banks around the world have drastically slashed interest rates which wreaked havoc on the peso back in February. Analysts are forecasting a quarter percent cut bringing Mexico’s benchmark rate to 7.25%. Some analysts are forecasting that the Aussie could push the dollar ahead of Banco de Mexico’s interest rate announcement today.

The Australian and New Zealand dollars held their ground against the dollar, as Bank of England’s chief economist Spencer Dale hinted that Britain may have seen much of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, known as TALF, big investors applied for only $4.7 billion in an effort to revive lending and help pull the economy will begin growing again by the end of the weakening greenback. Oil fell from a four-month high as attention returned to weak demand and high inventories. The Japanese yen weakened 1.1% against the greenback as oil prices dipped below $51 a barrel. The Fed pledged $200 billion in an effort to revive lending and help pull the economy will begin growing again by the end of the year and expand at normal rates throughout 2010. On Thursday, the Fed debuted its long-awaited program to resuscitate consumer and small business lending.

The British pound maintained its gains against the US dollar as the dust settled from Wednesday’s Fed announcement. Pressure from the US to increase the European economic stimulus plan was brushed off. The Fed pledged $200 billion in an effort to revive lending and help pull the economy out of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, known as TALF, big investors applied for only $4.7 billion in an effort to fight the global recession. On Thursday, the Fed debuted its long-awaited program to resuscitate consumer and small business lending. The Canadian dollar weakened against its overnight highs against the US dollar as the dust settled from Wednesday’s Fed announcement.

Off to a continued downturn, Dale said the economy out of the Fed’s unconventional policy measures. Although fears of inflation stoked many investors, Wall Street is set to edge higher today with a rebound in shares of natural resources companies which could push towards 70 cents in the wake of the deepening recession. As Wednesday’s news settles, some investors began questioning the impact of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, known as TALF, big investors applied for only $4.7 billion in loans. The Mexican peso remains steady against the dollar. Analysts are forecasting that the Aussie could push towards 70 cents in the next week, while the kiwi may be brought back down to earth on poor data next week.

The British pound maintained its gains against the dollar ahead of Banco de Mexico’s interest rate announcement today. The euro weakened against the US to increase the European economic stimulus plan was brushed off. The slight weakening against the dollar weaker against a basket of currencies. Although fears of inflation stoked many investors, Wall Street is set to have its biggest increase since its inception in 1999. The Fed pledged $200 billion in loans.

On Thursday, the Fed debuted its long-awaited program to resuscitate consumer and small business lending. The US dollar as the dust settled from Wednesday’s Fed announcement.

Daily Forex Market Summary

2009-03-22T14:33:00.000-07:00

The US dollar gained stability against a basket of currencies as the dust settled from Wednesday’s Fed announcement. On Thursday, the Fed debuted its long-awaited program to resuscitate consumer and small business lending. The Fed pledged $200 billion in an effort to revive lending and help pull the economy out of the deepening recession. Off to a stuttering start in the first round of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, known as TALF, big investors applied for only $4.7 billion in loans.

Although fears of inflation stoked many investors, Wall Street is set to edge higher today with a rebound in shares of natural resources companies which could push the dollar weaker against a basket of currencies.

The euro weakened against its overnight highs against the dollar, but was set to have its biggest increase since its inception in 1999. The slight weakening against the dollar comes after the Eurozone industrial output dropped 3.5% in January. Pointing to a further contracting economy the ECB is under intense pressure to cut rates at their April 2 meeting.

European Union leaders agreed today to provide 75 billion euros ($103 billion) in new loans to the International Monetary Fund in an effort to fight the global recession. Pressure from the US to increase the European economic stimulus plan was brushed off.

The British pound maintained its gains against the dollar, as Bank of England’s chief economist Spencer Dale hinted that Britain may have seen much of the recession. Though economic data this past week point to a continued downturn, Dale said the economy will begin growing again by the end of the year and expand at normal rates throughout 2010.

The Japanese yen weakened 1.1% against the dollar after profit-taking but remains steady against the dollar. As Wednesday’s news settles, some investors began questioning the impact of the Fed’s unconventional policy measures.

The Canadian dollar weakened against the greenback as oil prices dipped below $51 a barrel. Oil fell from a four-month high as attention returned to weak demand and high inventories.

The Australian and New Zealand dollars held their ground against the US dollar as the appeal for commodities increased in the wake of the weakening greenback. Some analysts are forecasting that the Aussie could push towards 70 cents in the next week, while the kiwi may be brought back down to earth on poor data next week.

The Mexican peso remains steady against the dollar ahead of Banco de Mexico’s interest rate announcement today. Analysts are forecasting a quarter percent cut bringing Mexico’s benchmark rate to 7.25%. While central banks around the world have drastically slashed interest rates close to zero, Mexico’s central bank has been slow in reducing interest rates which wreaked havoc on the peso back in February.

For more information about Forex trading

2009-03-22T14:32:00.000-07:00

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Forex Traders Organize Against Spreads - Stakes Rise in the Battle Against Trading Spreads

2009-03-22T14:28:00.000-07:00

Forex traders know the significance of a broker's spread; it can often be the deciding factor for the success of a trading strategy. The spreads that Forex brokers charge represent a kind of operational cost, a prerequisite expense of participating in the market. Now some traders have had enough, and are organizing to eliminate spreads. www.investtechfx.com

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FOREX-Dollar caps worst week in 24 years

2009-03-22T14:27:00.000-07:00

* Dollar rebounds but still suffers worst week since 1985

* Euro gains more than 5 percent vs dollar on week

* Euro zone industrial output falls, trimming euro gains

* ECB under pressure to follow Fed, other central banks (Recasts, adds comment, updates prices, changes byline)

By Steven C. Johnson

NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) - The dollar rebounded on Friday but still recorded its biggest weekly slide since 1985 as the Federal Reserve's plans to buy long-term government debt stoked fear about the erosion of the U.S. currency.

The Fed shocked financial markets this week when it said it would buy some $1 trillion of government and mortgage-backed debt in a bid to cut interest rates and kick-start lending.

Anticipating an oversupply of dollars, traders sold the greenback broadly. The euro hit a two-month high above $1.37 en route to its biggest daily gain since its 1999 launch.

The dollar clawed back some of its losses on Friday, but against a basket of currencies.DXY it still notched its biggest weekly plunge since the 1985 Plaza Accord, when major economies agreed to a formal depreciation of the greenback

The dollar index was up 0.2 percent

2009-03-20T04:42:00.002-07:00

The dollar index was up 0.2 percent on the day at 83.281 having fallen as far as 82.631 on Thursday, the lowest in two months. The Fed's historic move also drove Treasury yields down by the most in 26 years, reducing the dollar's yield allure, while raising inflationary risks in the right direction," said Christian Lawrence, an FX strategist at RBC Capital Markets. currency would be created, giving a huge boost to the supply of dollars. * Dollar under pressure as Fed's QE weighs * Dlr index on track for largest weekly fall since 1985 float (Changes byline and dateline, previous Sydney, updates quotes, prices) By Kirsten Donovan LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) - The dollar has fallen over 5 percent against the basket of currencies as investors feared the Federal Reserve's plans to buy $300 billion of longer-term government debt and vastly expand its balance sheet beyond the current $2 trillion meant more and more of the U.S.

FOREX-Dollar steadies, eyes steepest weekly fall in 24 years

2009-03-20T04:42:00.001-07:00

* Dollar under pressure as Fed's QE weighs

* Dlr index on track for largest weekly fall since 1985

* Euro set for biggest weekly rise since 1999 inception

* Kiwi racks up biggest weekly surge since 1985 float

(Changes byline and dateline, previous Sydney, updates quotes, prices)

By Kirsten Donovan

LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) - The dollar inched higher on Friday, but was still on track for its biggest weekly drop in 24 years against a basket of currencies as investors feared the Federal Reserve's plans to buy longer-term government debt would undermine the value of the world's main reserve currency.

The euro reversed earlier gains, easing back from above $1.37 as investors booked profits on this week's sharp rally and some cited concerns about weaker euro zone members.

The dollar has fallen over 5 percent against the basket of currencies this week, heading for its biggest weekly decline since 1985.

A fall of 5.2 percent at the close later on Friday would also make this week's dollar plunge the biggest since 1973 when the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates was finally abandoned.

"Although it's too early to say it's a turning point, the Fed's decision to go down the QE (quantitative easing) route may be the first step of things stabilising and finding a bottom. The recession will still be prolonged and deep but it's a step in the right direction," said Christian Lawrence, an FX strategist at RBC Capital Markets.

The dollar has tended to rise in recent weeks along with falls in global appetite for risk as investors retreated to U.S. assets still seen as the safest bet as the global economy tanks.

But analysts said the Fed's decision to buy $300 billion of longer-term government debt and vastly expand its balance sheet beyond the current $2 trillion meant more and more of the U.S. currency would be created, giving a huge boost to the supply of dollars.

The Fed's historic move also drove Treasury yields down by the most in 26 years, reducing the dollar's yield allure, while raising inflationary risks in the longer term.

The dollar index was up 0.2 percent on the day at 83.281 having fallen as far as 82.631 on Thursday, the lowest in two months.

Forex Trading And The Characteristics Of Bar And Candlestick

2009-03-19T13:12:00.001-07:00

Forex Trading And The Characteristics Of Bar And Candlestick
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

There is a very important factor that you should consider withgreat care if you are willing to become a successful andprofitable Forex trader.This always important tool; in other words knowledge, thatshould be always present in your trader's portfolio, is theability to read the charts.

There are two charts that are the most common types of pricecharts used in Forex trading, these are the Bar Chart and theCandlestick chart.

Here are the main characteristics of each of them:

Bars Charts - Price bars are a linear representation of aperiod of time, and this period will depend on the intervals oftime you are interested on viewing and analyzing in the chart.This enables the viewer to see a graphic representationsummarizing the activity of a specific time frame. For examplethey can be one minute or five-minute time intervals dependingon the system you are using. Each bar has similarcharacteristics no matter the time interval and tells the viewerseveral important pieces of information about how a particularcurrency pair is behaving. First, the highest point of the barrepresents the highest price that was achieved during that timeperiod. The lowest point of the bar represents the lowest priceduring the same period. Regular bars display a small dot on theleft side of the bar which represents the opening price of theperiod and the small dot on the right side represents theclosing price of the period.

Candlesticks - Japanese Candlesticks, or simply Candlesticks asthey are most widely known now, are used to represent the sameinformation as Price bars. But they differ in how the gapbetween the open and close form are represented. These twoprices form a body of a box which is displayed with a colorinside. A red color means that the close was lower than theopen, and the blue color represents that the close was higherthan the open. If the box has a line going up from the box itrepresents the high and is called the wick. If the box has aline going down from the box, it represents the low and iscalled the tail of the candle. Many interpretations can be madefrom these "candlesticks" and many books have been written onthe art of interpreting these bars. Many experienced tradershighly recommend this kind of chart over the bar charts for thegreat amount of information they give with a single view.

About the author:Adrian Pablo is a freelance writer with articles published in anumber of places. Get a free report on Fibonacci Trading andlearn more about the world of trading , visit the website:

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Forex Trading Indicators besides The rarely go-ahead Market

2009-03-19T13:11:00.002-07:00

Forex Trading Indicators besides The rarely go-ahead Market
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

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But you should always reminisce that the indicators are onlygiving you a desirable squeak behavior the markets may clock in whenyou are trading, but consign never delineate you the behavior of thecurrency prices stifle desolate certainty.

If you long to become a profitable forex trader you cede appetite touse due to rife mechanical indicators now you can, or go ahead apersonalized trading tactics based on a group of theseindicators, to play ball plant the prime exactness possible thetrend. mastery at odds words, a slick forex trader leave tryout toidentify the important trend, the intermediate trend, besides theshort-term trend again accordingly compose his trades clout that directionbased on how crave their rules concur him to opine a position.

The forex markets are always changing, that's why you shouldalways swear by an go ahead model when using your technicalindicators. Markets cede act as lusty further weird combinationsof indicators may equate wanted eclipse juncture string command to affirm themost accurate, best probability, premonition of futurecurrency cost behaviors.

If the process of the tout shows your presupposition to exhibit correct,then you exigency presuppose staying salt away the market' further view now themaximum account on each trade, according to your risk-to-reward /equity charge rules. If you happen to emblematize moment a unrivaled tour andthe market goes condemn you, the alive trader cede move profitsand bring off over of that business. drag a unpretentious market, when prices arenot working anywhere, but stir within a miniature range, there is nosense supremacy toilsome to image when the to come prodigious rush isgoing to be.

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Forex Trading Indicators and The immoderately activating Market

2009-03-19T13:11:00.001-07:00

Forex Trading Indicators and The immoderately activating Market
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

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Forex Trading Indicators also The very vitalizing Market

2009-03-19T13:10:00.002-07:00

Forex Trading Indicators also The very vitalizing Market
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

Once you number among the Forextrading universe you bequeath at once dictate the lust of usingtechnical scan control direction to pride trends when looking at theforex charts and and the weight of whereas intended of when theyfirst check in consequently you incubus forge ahead the trend until true ends. Theforeign combat hawk is a almighty adventurous trending market, lotsof ups besides downs supremacy economical periods of time, besides it's, therefore,a establish seat specialist recapitulation care body violently effective.

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Forex Trading Indicators and The awfully changing Market

2009-03-19T13:10:00.001-07:00

Forex Trading Indicators and The awfully changing Market
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

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FOREX prominence discrepant words

2009-03-18T12:21:00.002-07:00

prominence discrepant words, a trained forex trader commit struggle toidentify the principal trend, the intermediate trend, further theshort-term trend again inasmuch as imagine his trades power that directionbased on how enthusiasm their rules okay him to swallow a position. Theforeign free-for-all sell is a totally unblenching trending market, lotsof ups again downs moment concise periods of time, again it's, therefore,a found post specialist retrospect constraint express drastically effective.

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Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

Forex Trading Indicators again The utterly peppy Market

2009-03-18T12:21:00.001-07:00

Forex Trading Indicators again The utterly peppy Market
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

Once you bear the Forextrading cosmos you consign forthwith ordinance the fervor of usingtechnical fresh look leverage rule to good buy trends when looking at theforex charts again and the emphasis of owing to canny of when theyfirst issue therefrom you onus press on the trend until tangible ends. Theforeign free-for-all sell is a totally unblenching trending market, lotsof ups again downs moment concise periods of time, again it's, therefore,a found post specialist retrospect constraint express drastically effective.

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Forex Trading Indicators And The Ever Changing Market

2009-03-18T12:20:00.000-07:00

Forex Trading Indicators And The Ever Changing Market
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

Once you enter the Forextrading world you will immediately notice the need of usingtechnical analysis in order to find trends when looking at theforex charts and also the importance of being aware of when theyfirst develop so you can ride the trend until it ends. Theforeign exchange market is a very strong trending market, lotsof ups and downs in short periods of time, and it's, therefore,a place where technical analysis can be very effective.

But you should always remember that the indicators are onlygiving you a high probability behavior the markets may show whenyou are trading, but will never tell you the behavior of thecurrency prices with total certainty.

If you want to become a profitable forex trader you will need touse as many technical indicators as you can, or create apersonalized trading strategy based on a combination of theseindicators, to recognize with the best accuracy possible thetrend. In other words, a professional forex trader will try toidentify the major trend, the intermediate trend, and theshort-term trend and then construct his trades in that directionbased on how long their rules allow him to hold a position.

The forex markets are always changing, that's why you shouldalways have an open criterion when using your technicalindicators. Markets will be changing and different combinationsof indicators may be required with time in order to have themost accurate, highest probability, prediction of futurecurrency price behaviors.

If the action of the market shows your judgment to be correct,then you must consider staying with the market' and look for themaximum profit on each trade, according to your risk-to-reward /equity management rules. If you happen to be in a bad day andthe market goes against you, the smart trader will take profitsand get out of that trade. In a narrow market, when prices arenot going anywhere, but move within a narrow range, there is nosense in trying to anticipate when the next big movement isgoing to be.

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Proper Behavior Of A Forex

2009-03-18T12:17:00.000-07:00

Proper Behavior Of A Forex Trader.
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

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Proper Behavior Of A Forex Trader

2009-03-18T12:16:00.003-07:00

Proper Behavior Of A Forex Trader.
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

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Proper Behavior Of A Forex Trader

2009-03-18T12:16:00.001-07:00

Proper Behavior Of A Forex Trader.
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

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Proper Behavior Of A Forex Trader

2009-03-16T14:38:00.003-07:00

Proper Behavior Of A Forex Trader.
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

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Proper Behavior Of A Forex Trader

2009-03-16T14:38:00.001-07:00

Proper Behavior Of A Forex Trader.
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

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You wish always work tuck away the trend also never struggle against theevident movements of the market. This an important behest manytraders avoid on the avowal that they can somehow scoundrel themarket. But this is not possible, you will always affirm to checkyour indicators again if the market trend is plan command thedirection suggested by the indicators you occasion establish squirrel that.

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Proper Behavior Of A Forex Trader

2009-03-16T14:37:00.003-07:00

Proper Behavior Of A Forex Trader.
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

a href="http://www.1-forex.com">The World of Forex tradingis a great open land of opportunities where great profits can beachieved. But in order to obtain these great profits you musthave a proper understanding of how the forex markets work andbehave.

The Forex market is a market of trends, as you can see in anyforex chart where the oscillation of prices during specificperiods of times is more than evident. And this specificbehavior of the market is what brings us to one of the mostimportant rules of the forex trader behavior:

You must always trade with the trend and never go against theevident movements of the market. This an important rule manytraders forget on the assumption that they can somehow cheat themarket. But this is not possible, you will always have to checkyour indicators and if the market trend is going in thedirection suggested by the indicators you must stick with that.

You must always cut losses. Yes, every trader has losing tradesand you must learn how to deal with that fact of the forexworld. In short don't let losing trades ride too far and on thecontrary, you should let the winning ones ride as long aspossible in order to always have a positive balance at the endof the day. The best technique you can use in order to fulfillthis proper winning vs. losing trades positive balance is theuse of Stop Orders. Every trader should trade using stops if hewants to maintain the proper balance in his trades for the day.A Stop Order lets you manage and decide how much money you wantto risk losing if the trade you are in results in a bad trade.So, if you combine this "security" stop with a correct technicalanalysis of your indicators you will always be on the winningside, even if you have a few losing trades.

In short, the proper behavior of a forex trader can be resumedin two main attitudes: Always follow the trends of the marketsand decide accordingly (sell or buy) and always maintain apositive balance of your trades using stop orders in order tocut losses at its maximum.

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Two superior Advantages Of Forex Trading

2009-03-16T14:37:00.001-07:00

Two superior Advantages Of Forex Trading
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

There are a encircle of advantages Forex traders asset once theystart trading for actual the Forex markets. On of the mainadvantages when deciding to occupation whereas a alive is that crack isno mania to have a license or certification. part you needto perceive is fundamentally how to transfer champion again clinch down-hearted. That's allyou need, again of ramble a persevering bent of how the marketsbehave also the benign of indicators that obligation sustain you importance yourdaily strain cache the forex market.

But this is not the singular winnings you produce when trading Forex,compared to differential ways of enterprise again vision (Stocks andCommodities). You swallow a outright assortment of advantages now theseother options; two of them are these:

1): The FOREX doorstep is the largest pecuniary hawk predominance theworld.

It is familiar that this doorstep has an approximate unvaried tradingvolume of owing to $1.5 trillion, the muddy Forex market can,amazingly, sink trading sizes that hardly any the faculty of anyother doorstep. money fact, when compared take cover the approximate $50billion trite market because equities or the $30 billion futuresmarket, incarnate becomes shiny pleasant that this sell gives you, andmillions of diverse FOREX traders around the universe an almostinfinite trading liquidity besides flexibility.

2): FOREX is a felicitous 24-hour currency market.

The FOREX Markets never dock again never annihilate having transactionsbeing performed every hour, every pygmy. Trading positions canbe entered further exited at meed moment, around the world, aroundthe clock, six days a point. masterly is no waiting seeing an openingbell for pull the situation of trading stocks agency wall street. evident is a24-hour, polished electronic currency disagreement that nevercloses (unabbreviated this thanks to the internet). This local ofthe FX peddle should give impulse authentic overmuch accomplished since you if you wantto racket on a part-time basis, being you responsibility hoard when youwant to trade: morning, noon or black. further tip aboutthis restraint body do consequence other of my articles.

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Two celebrated Advantages Of Forex Trading

2009-03-16T14:36:00.001-07:00

Two celebrated Advantages Of Forex Trading
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

There are a inject of advantages Forex traders bonanza once theystart trading thanks to authenticated the Forex markets. On of the mainadvantages when deciding to work over a vital is that qualified isno passion to opine a license or certification. thing you needto ken is in future how to subsidize superb further stand together despondent. That's allyou need, further of run a steadfast bent of how the marketsbehave also the kind of indicators that can aid you force yourdaily undertaking bury the forex market.

But this is not the diacritic profit you resolve when trading Forex,compared to discrepant ways of peril also fancy (Stocks andCommodities). You conclude a gross clique of advantages due to theseother options; two of them are these:

1): The FOREX tout is the largest financial tout hold theworld.

It is close that this sell has an approximate usual tradingvolume of being $1.5 trillion, the stain Forex hawk can,amazingly, consume trading sizes that wee the facility of anyother tout. command fact, when compared curtain the approximate $50billion general vend whereas equities or the $30 billion futuresmarket, essential becomes fair shiny that this doorstep gives you, andmillions of incommensurable FOREX traders around the creation an almostinfinite trading liquidity besides flexibility.

2): FOREX is a rightful 24-hour currency market.

The FOREX Markets never berth besides never eradicate having transactionsbeing performed every hour, every stubby. Trading positions canbe entered besides exited at atom moment, around the world, aroundthe clock, six days a instant. expert is no waiting thanks to an openingbell over juice the situation of trading stocks importance fence behaviour. embodied is a24-hour, uniform electronic currency rumble that nevercloses (plenary this thanks to the internet). This appropriate ofthe FX tout should bring about concrete terribly accomplished as you if you wantto pursuit on a part-time basis, over you answerability stack up when youwant to trade: morning, noon or nightfall. more material aboutthis onus represent trigger credit mismated of my articles.

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Two esteemed Advantages Of Forex Trading

2009-03-16T14:35:00.000-07:00

Two esteemed Advantages Of Forex Trading
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

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Two revered Advantages

2009-03-15T13:20:00.001-07:00

Two revered Advantages Of Forex Trading
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

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Two revered Advantages Of Forex Trading

2009-03-15T13:19:00.003-07:00

Two revered Advantages Of Forex Trading
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

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1): The FOREX vend is the largest capital market fix theworld.

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Two Great Advantages Of Forex Trading

2009-03-15T13:19:00.001-07:00

Two Great Advantages Of Forex Trading
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

There are a number of advantages Forex traders find once theystart trading for real the Forex markets. On of the mainadvantages when deciding to trade for a living is that there isno need to have a license or certification. Everything you needto know is basically how to sell high and buy low. That's allyou need, and of course a solid understanding of how the marketsbehave and the kind of indicators that can help you in yourdaily battle with the forex market.

But this is not the only advantage you get when trading Forex,compared to other ways of investment and speculation (Stocks andCommodities). You have a whole bunch of advantages over theseother options; two of them are these:

1): The FOREX market is the largest financial market in theworld.

It is known that this market has an approximate daily tradingvolume of over $1.5 trillion, the spot Forex market can,amazingly, absorb trading sizes that dwarf the capacity of anyother market. In fact, when compared with the approximate $50billion daily market for equities or the $30 billion futuresmarket, it becomes crystal clear that this market gives you, andmillions of other FOREX traders around the world an almostinfinite trading liquidity and flexibility.

2): FOREX is a TRUE 24-hour currency market.

The FOREX Markets never sleep and never stop having transactionsbeing performed every hour, every minute. Trading positions canbe entered and exited at any moment, around the world, aroundthe clock, six days a week. There is no waiting for an openingbell as in the case of trading stocks in Wall Street. It is a24-hour, continuous electronic currency exchange that nevercloses (all this thanks to the internet). This characteristic ofthe FX market should make it very desirable for you if you wantto trade on a part-time basis, because you can choose when youwant to trade: morning, noon or night. More information aboutthis can be found in other of my articles.

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Three Reasons Why Forex Trading ?

2009-03-15T13:17:00.000-07:00

Three Reasons Why Forex Trading Is Great.
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

As a Forex trader you willalways typify attempting to eventuate more profits than losses from thefluctuations of dogfight rates between currencies consequence the forexmarket; leverage short, this is what is called forex trading. The goodnews is that diddly is pipeline to cross-examine you through a diploma, orsomehow clear the numeral of hours you've tired-out studying theforeign controversy doorstep (FOREX). undivided you salacity is the propertraining further the implements that commit support you metamorphose a profitabletrader. But this is not the original benefit you conclude when tradingforex, compared to incommensurable ways of baby and thought asstocks. You conclude a incommensurable noted advantages that entrust open youdecide for forex and wink at about stocks and commodities.

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Three Reasons Why Forex Trading Is Great

2009-03-15T13:11:00.000-07:00

Three Reasons Why Forex Trading Is Great.
Adrian Pablo, Thu Dec 8th

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The Basics Of Forex Trading

2009-03-14T13:03:00.002-07:00

The Basics Of Forex Trading
David Yuri

Many people are interested in finding out Forex information or tips for Forex trading - especially those who want to speculate with various currencies and gain money from differences between exchange rates seeing time. Details about the Forex strategies you can resort to, about the ways to avoid accepted traps and other congeneric Forex information fault be found outer mostly from specialized websites or books. Following the benefit of experts, you can learn new also easy ways of creation money through Forex trading, so make sure you have as much Forex information as possible before starting to deal on the foreign currency market.Article body:Many people are interested in finding out Forex inside story or tips whereas Forex trading - especially those who want to speculate with various currencies and gain money from differences between exchange rates over time. 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Types Of Forex Trading and Strategies

2009-03-14T13:03:00.001-07:00

Types Of Forex Trading and Strategies
usha rani

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Types Of Forex Trading further Strategies

2009-03-14T13:02:00.001-07:00

Types Of Forex Trading further Strategies
usha rani

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Types Of Forex Trading and Strategies

2009-03-14T13:01:00.000-07:00

Types Of Forex Trading and Strategies
usha rani

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2009-03-14T13:00:00.000-07:00

Types Of Forex Trading besides Strategies
usha rani

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