United States dollar
Studying US Treasury's Tics Report
Michael Woolfolk, an economist at Bank of New York Mellon in New York, breaks down the monthly Tics report released last Thursday (July 16)
Finding the balance
Pete Luxton, global economic advisor at Informa Global Markets in London, assesses whether purchasing power parity can provide a guide to relative currency values, and applies the PPP technique to predict where the G-10 currencies are headed
Time to dust off gold?
Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York, discusses gold as an anchor for currencies
SDR: a superficial dollar replacement
Pete Luxton, global markets adviser at Informa Global Markets in London, says reserve status is an unlikely route for the SDR
Grace under pressure
Margaret Kempner examines common strategies throughout the crisis
Gold, oil and clarity on the dollar
Mansoor Mohi-uddin , head of foreign exchange strategy at UBS in Zurich, looks at the unusual joint rally by gold and the US dollar alongside the slump in oil prices, and predicts what this means for the dollar in 2009