Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank Dollars & Sense
Be in-the-know of how the major foreign currencies are performing in the light of ever-changing economic and political conditions of major markets.
Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank
Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank
Be patient, USD bears and JPY bulls

We are USD bears over the medium- to long-term. However, nearterm market dynamics suggest the USD may do well...

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Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank

Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank

USD Grows From Strength to Strength

The USD has been on a bull run, strengthening since September, due to favourable interest rate differentials over other currencies...
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Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank
Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank

USD weakness to resume

We have seen the USD Index undergoing sideways trading since August, as cyclical positives such as strong economic...
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Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank
Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank

Temporary USD rebound before weakness continues

As indicated in our research towards the end of 2004, we were expecting a significant bounce in the US dollar towards the end of 2004...
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Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank
Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank

USD decline to continue through
H1 2005*

Throughout 2004, we held strongly to our view that the US dollar needed to decline. Only in October did the US dollar break decisively lower...
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Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank
Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank

Dollars & Sense (3rd Quarter)

The US dollar resumed its weakening trend despite market expectation for further interest rate hikes. Different Fed Governors have questioned the perception that higher interest rate is positive for USD...
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Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank

Dollars & Sense (2nd Quarter)

The US dollar is now receiving support from the US monetary policy outlook. Federal Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony in July showed confidence...
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Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank

Currencies to watch.

Once again, we are awaiting the resumption of the US dollar's downward trend. Soon after the Sterling and the Euro broke through key resistance levels, they slumped.
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Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank

Impact of a weak dollar and getting the dollar right

The recent dollar rebound is expected to be short-lived. This provides investors with an opportunity to establish investment positions that will take advantage of further dollar weakness that we expect to come in the first half of 2004
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Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank
Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank

What's In Store For Currencies?

The strength of the Japanese Yen is expected to continue and drag Asian currencies with it, although the risks of a near term Chinese Yuan revaluation are fading.
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Personal Finance - Standard Chartered Bank
 
 

 

 
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