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CurrencyShares Swiss Franc Trust (FXF) is in the Financial Services Industry
- Revenue
- Oct 31 2007
- $1.4M
- Profit
- Oct 31 2007
- $1.0M
- Market Cap
- Nov 28 2008
- $408.1M
Latest News and Analysis
Where Do Investors Go from Here?
Joe Gelet submits: It is very simple to see where opinions of the current market have their origins: do you have a vested interest in promoting it? Do you have a large equity portfolio, a large share of Goldman Sachs GS, or other financials, making you a big...
Interactive Brokers FX Summary
Can the mess become even messier? It seems that each new problem that a company faces quickly becomes a new risk to the market. The transmission between market risk and risk to the government or economy has never been any faster than it is today. Each rescue package, which would...
Market Nosedive Pushes Dollar Down
Grace Cheng submits: Stock markets are still spooked on Wednesday following the US government’s rescue of AIG AIG, the world’s largest insurance company, late Tuesday. In the forex markets, the US dollar is trading with a weaker hand. The aversion of a near-term collapse of AIG hasn’t brought joy to...
Dollar Shows Resilience As Safe-Haven Currency
Grace Cheng submits: Many people may feel like dumping US stocks, but apparently, this sentiment doesn’t have a lasting effect on the US dollar. Monday hasn’t been a pleasant day for stocks, but in the forex markets, many institutional traders have rushed to buy US dollars in the midst of...
Dow at 10,000 Could Mean Dollar/Yen at 100
Kathy Lien submits: On Friday, the idea of the Dow hitting 10,000 seemed to be a remote possibility, but today, that is starting to become a reality. We have warned on a near daily basis about the danger of carry trades. Although the EUR/USD’s reaction to the systemic...
Pending Fed Rate Decision, Dollar Loses Steam
Grace Cheng submits: A lot of maybes are now swirling around in the air of the financial markets. Speculation is now rife that the Fed may spring a surprise interest rate cut as they are concerned about the widening spreads in the credit markets. Should that become true, the US...
Massive Opportunity to Short the Dollar
Joe Gelet submits: One way or another, the dollar is going down. Hold on to your shorts because this will be the short of the decade. Recent interventions in commodity markets, which has been a combination of short selling in the Gold market, and large institutions taking profit in...
Interactive Brokers FX Summary
Watching the markets slowly prod for answers on Monday following the federal rescue of the mortgage market twins, Fannie and Freddie, was interesting. Within a heartbeat equity investors had decided that the annihilation of those two share prices was what was needed to restore a sweeping confidence on Wall Street....
Housing, Lehman, and an End to Market Euphoria
Grace Cheng submits: Did the euphoria last only 24 hours? Investors’ sentiment has reversed again on Wall Street. Just on Monday, US stock indices, plus stocks around the world, rose on news of the government’s bailout of crooked mortgage giants Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE, but today, the...
Weekly Market Outlook: Sept. 8 - 12
Matthew Bradbard submits: U.S. federal regulators seized control of Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE on Sunday. This was a historic intervention aimed at stabilizing the mortgage market at home and credit markets worldwide. Expect this decision will cause ripples in a variety of the markets this week,...
Job Numbers Don't Freak Out Dollar Bulls
Grace Cheng submits: US non-farm payrolls data was bad, quite bad, but not terribly bad. When the US economy is in such a bad state, it takes quite a lot to shock. Anyway here are the numbers: The US unemployment rate unexpectedly jumped to 6.1% in August from 5.7% in...
Dollar Rallies, Oil Plunges on Gustav's Kindness
Grace Cheng submits: Summer holidays are over and now it’s back to serious business starting with the first day of September. The highlight of today is the sharp decline in oil prices on news that Hurricane Gustav has luckily bypassed major oil refinery facilities along the Gulf of Mexico, weakening...
Financial Markets: The Era of Caution
Prieur du Plessis submits: The gyrations of financial markets ahead of the Labor Day weekend tested the patience of bulls and bears alike. As big swings took place in thinly-traded markets, I was reminded of Albert Schweitzer’s words: As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become...
BoE Calls for Big Rate Cuts; Pound Could Suffer More
Grace Cheng submits: Many traders are already on leave ahead of the long US Labor Day weekend holiday, causing trading volume to be thin in the forex, stock and oil markets. And with such reduced volume and trading interest, the markets are trudging along in a whipsaw zig-zag manner. Even...
A Pause in the Dollar's Rebound Creates Currency Options Volatility
After several weeks of the dollar rally, currency futures settled down and in some quarters even reversed direction. Whether that proves short-lived remains to be seen. The slide in appetite for the euro currency evident in the previous week stopped as dollar bulls scratched their heads, but failed to find...
Despite Lower Oil Inventories, Dollar Surges
Grace Cheng submits: So far it has been quite a good week for the US dollar when it comes to US economic figures. Wednesday’s release of July US durable goods orders came out better than market consensus, jumping to 1.3%, following an unrevised 1.3% increase in June, and versus an...
A New Pattern of Currency Trading?
The LFB submits: Overall, the market has developed a trading pattern lately. A wave of orders hit the currency market soon after the Asian session opened, testing and eventually breaking important price points. Last night was the third night in a row that this happened. After two days of dollar...
The Dollar Continues to Advance Against Major Currencies
The LFB submits: Overall, the dollar has posted some huge gains in the overnight session, advancing against the other major currencies. The dollar index is moving higher, trading just above the 77 area. There are extremely important U.S. economic releases scheduled for today that could either stop the dollar in...
Crude Inventories: Forex Effects of the Surprise Rise
Grace Cheng submits: In the forex markets, EUR/USD indeed met resistance around 1.4805 and USD/CHF attracted bidding interest around 1.0890, an expected support level, during the early Asian trading session Wednesday, thus spurring a USD rebound after some weakness experienced Tuesday. EUR/USD fell below 1.4700 while USD/CHF rose to as...
Dollar Yields to a Slumping Market
Grace Cheng submits: Tuesday has been a day of whipsaw moves in the forex markets. The US dollar initially gained against other major currencies like the Euro and Swiss franc, but then slipped with relative ease as trading progressed into the American afternoon on cue from the slumping US stocks,...
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- Incorporated: 2006
The CurrencySharesSM Swiss Franc Trust is a grantor trust. Co.'s investment objective is for the Shares to reflect the price of the Swiss Franc plus accrued interest, less the expenses of the Trust's operations. The Shares are intended to offer investors an opportunity to participate in the market for the Swiss Franc through an investment in securities. The Shares are intended to provide institutional and retail investors with a simple, cost-effective means of gaining investment benefits similar to those of holding the Swiss Franc. The Shares are backed by the assets of Co., which does not hold or use derivative products.
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9601 Blackwell Road
Suite 500
Rockville, MD
301 296 5100
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