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New Zealand Dollar Rebounds on Retail Sales


After losing significantly during most of this Wednesday’s session as risk aversion prevailed globally, the kiwi rebounded in currency markets as retail sales advanced in the country reviving the confidence regarding the Southern Pacific economy.

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Canadian Dollar Suffers Huge Impact on Inflation, Risk Aversion


The Canadian dollar ranked among the worst performers in currency markets today as risk aversion influenced commodities and equities trading, which are strongly related to the loonie’s rates as weak economic data in the country also influenced the confidence towards Canada’s currency.

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Canada’s Dollar Retreats on Oil, Risk Aversion


The Canadian dollar declined versus its U.S. counterpart and

lower-yielding currencies as risk aversion rose impacting markets with extreme influence in the loonie rates, those of raw materials and equities, which dropped globally this Friday.

The loonie was impacted today as energetic and metallic commodities declined, specially the crude oil, as raw material exports account for more than half of the country’s international trade revenue, in a day of bearish markets in New York and Toronto.

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Brazilian Real Declines on Treasury Plans


The Brazilian real posted the fourth straight day of decline versus the U.S. dollar as speculations suggest that the Treasury is likely to start a debt selling plan to buy dollars, declining attractiveness for the real in currency markets.

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Canadian Dollar Rebounds After Bearish Days


The Canadian dollar profited from a higher risk appetite session today and rebounded versus the yen and its U.S.

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Yen Rallies on China’s Banking Policy


Risk aversion declined significantly today after China set a new reserves requirements for banks in the country, allowing the yen to outperform all of the 16 main traded currencies in

foreign-exchange markets, as pessimism surged.

Equities markets in Asia and globally declined today, raising demand for the yen, as China set a minimum of 16 percent of reserves that large banking corporations in the country must have, in order to avoid a credit bubble as the one that caused the global slump in late 2008.

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Pound slid back against the euro yesterday, but has rebounded strongly in trading today

Sterling dipped slightly against the single currency, relinquishing gains in the afternoon as US equities slipped back, closing the day down just 0.1% at 1.0958.

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The positive news and comment from New Zealand and Australia strengthened the downtrend of the dollar

While the currency markets wavered, hesitating to jump into a train of risk on the New York session, Wall Street took the bull by the horns, and the DJIA index Breaks at 10 000 points for the first time since October 2008.

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