The honeymoon period with the new Conservative government is over.
Sterling enjoyed a brief rally this summer, with a 2% rise against a basket of currencies of the UK’s major trading partners and rose around 9 cents to hover just below the USD $1.60 mark.Sterling has managed to perform relatively well because of the inherent weaknesses of other economies; the Euro was held back (the Greek economic crisis) and the US dollar has been suffering against every other major economy in the world as it struggles to shake itself out of the effects of recession.Now...
The UK National Statistics Office has reported that overseas spending by British holiday makers has dropped by 10%. However, at the same time, spending in the UK by foreign tourists has increased by 4%.
The UK was once regarded as the “workshop of the world”, and exports still account for a substantial portion of UK manufacturing and commercial activities today.
Transacting business overseas is a valuable commercial hedge against adverse market conditions at home as well as a mean of providing highly profitable opportunities to generate business growth.
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Der Euro befindet sich aus markttechnischer Sicht und auf Basis des Tages-Charts in einem Abwärtstrend, dessen jüngste Bewegungsphase, nahe des bisher tiefsten ?Punkt 2? zu einer Korrektur ansetzt. Mit dem Tagestief vom Freitag, verfehlte der Kurs mit lediglich 16 Pips nur knapp das bisherige Trendtief vom 16. Januar bei 1,2626 USD, um sich im weiteren Verlauf deutlich zu erholen und per Tagesschlusskurs dann einen markanten Umkehrstab zu hinterlassen. Damit endete dann auch ein...
The Chilean peso rose even after Chile’s central bank refrained from increasing interest rates. Good prospects for the nation’s economy and possibility of an interest rate hike in the future may be responsible for the currency’s gains.(...)Read the rest of Chile’s Central Bank Holds Main Interest Rate, Peso Advances (187 words) Posted on Forex News.
It is nothing new that trading in the form of money is not an easy term to understand. To explain it in the simplest of terms, trading money or rather buying currencies is similar to buying stocks or shares of a company. The value of the stock bought determines the value of the currency and the health of that country's economy. A Simple Example Suppose you buy a stock in the Japanese market, rather you buy some yens by trading your own currency. By buying a particular amount of yen, you are...
The euro reached the lowest level in four months against the US dollar and the lowest in three months versus the Japanese yen today on fears that the European crisis is escalating. The currency was higher on the day though.(...)Read the rest of Euro Drops to 4-Month Low, Closes Above Opening Level (137 words) Posted on Forex News.