Economics

Euro and sterling – love to loathe

Daragh Maher, foreign exchange strategist at Crédit Agricole in London, discusses the struggle of the euro and sterling in the face of recent political events, and asks which is winning the battle of the battered

Sentimental value

Naomi Fink, Japan strategist in global markets sales and trading at the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ in Tokyo, assesses the slump in corporate sentiment in Japan, and what this bodes for the country's economic growth

US lets China off the hook

WASHINGTON, DC - The US Treasury has cleared China of manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages against the US.

US recession prompts call for recoupling

LONDON - A US recession this year would prompt a "recoupling" of non-US growth on an absolute if not relative basis, according to speakers at Goldman Sachs' annual foreign exchange conference in London last Wednesday (February 6).

Banks expand Asia research

SINGAPORE & HONG KONG - Asian analysts are in hot demand as a number of banks build up Asian research teams to match client interest in the region's emerging economies.

London forex faces 130 job cuts

LONDON - Foreign exchange workers in London should brace themselves for 130 job cuts in 2008 as the interbank market crisis forces banks to reduce staff levels, according to estimates by London's Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).

Is the dollar dross?

Pete Luxton, global markets adviser, and Shant Movsesian, FX options manager, at Informa Global Markets in London, seek ways to benefit from the flagging US dollar

Rating agencies assess CP markets

EUROPE – Fitch Ratings and Moody's sought to capture the effect of the commercial paper (CP) market's lack of liquidity on the wider banking outlook in two conference calls last week.

Reset strike bonus forwards for a Korean win

David Mann, senior FX strategist, and Michael Image, senior FX structurer at Standard Chartered in Hong Kong, suggest reset strike bonus forwards over plain forwards to hedge Korean won downside risks

A strategy for yen appreciation

With faster economic growth, yen appreciation will happen. It is just a matter of timing, says Trevor Williams, chief economist at Lloyds TSB Financial Markets in London

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