US Dollar

We are all familiar with the quoted value of stock indexes like the DOW or S&P 500 that we see on websites and TV news channels. Even though these quotes are of course accurate they are also ‘currency nominal', meaning that they ‘hide' the affects of US Dollar currency fluctuations. Recently...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) gave a grim outlook for the global economy in its most recent World Economic Outlook report. According to the IMF, “financial volatility has again increased drastically, driven by concerns about developments in the euro area and the strength of global activity...

FRANKFURT - I've proven that even a fool can make a lot of money in the market. I've also proven that "a foole and his money is soone parted." This morning, I was sitting outside of a café on Berger Straße, sipping on a latte and pretending my pen was a cigarette. I watched high-end branded...

Do you ever wonder: if the bi-winning Fed secretly engineered the debt-limit crisis, so it can fulfill its dual mandate of lowering US treasuries interest rates and destroying the value of the dollar? why gold bears no interests, but everyone is interested in it? who invented the oxymoron '...

Shares of the POWERSHARES BULL US DOLLAR INDEX ETF (NYSE: UUP) have been jumping higher for the past few weeks, but one trader is betting that the run may be over for a while. The September $25 put was purchased 5,000 times on the offer for $0.68 a short wile ago; open interest on the strike is...

The gold: US dollar relationship is not always dollar down and gold up or dollar up and gold down. If Euros are being used to buy gold, which is what we are told, if the gold seller dumps the Euros and buys dollars, the dollar goes up, the Euro goes down, and gold goes up. So gold and the dollar...

After the US President Barack Obama pledged to focus on expanding jobs in the country, the Australian dollar recovered from its overnight weakness and bond prices fell. President Obama’s speech drove up US stock futures. However, the US dollar erased early gains and lost against all major...

The US dollar had a mixed day in Asia today, with market sentiments affected by developments in the corporate sector. The day for the dollar almost ended where it started. While at the start of the day, the US dollar lost against almost all major currencies in Asia, it got support after the euro...

Analysts at Cowen and Company say that their expectation for a strong earnings season is underlined by positive fluctuations in foreign currency, favorable seasonal demand trends and a continued open pricing environment. Cowen and Company expects emerging product companies to offer profit-making...

Spot gold has continued to slip with the strengthening of the US dollar. The dollar has reached a one-week high against the euro, which has subdued the demand for the precious yellow metal. As the economic data remains mixed and the direction of the US dollar remains uncertain, gold prices continue...

The US dollar consolidated its early gains in the Asian markets today and remained close to the morning highs against the euro, as the market calmed before a holiday weekend in the US. While the dollar-yen also slipped briefly to ¥90.92, it recovered soon with the reemergence of demand for the...

The US dollar continued its move up against the yen today. The dollar, however, remained weak against most other currencies after the Federal Reserve reported that there was a modest improvement in the regional economic conditions. Traders are now focusing on US reports of retail sales and weekly...