Dollar Rises Despite Stock Gains Hans Nilsson - October 9th, 2009 The dollar rose on Friday, supported by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s comment last night that the Fed will tighten monetary policy “when the economic outlook improves sufficiently.” This is not a big surprise to the financial markets; however, in conjunction with White House economic adviser Larry Summers’ support for the dollar, it helped the US currency today. Summers said... |
Safe to Short Dollar? Hans Nilsson - October 8th, 2009 The dollar fell on Thursday as better-than-expected initial jobless claims indicated the US economy is slowly improving. The Bank of England and European Central Bank kept the benchmark interest rates at 0.50% and 1.00%, respectively, showing no signs of changing their monetary policies anytime soon... |
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