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- Chile: Rates Are Steady, Outlook Is Strong
- Marc Chandler submits:Tuesday was an important day for Chile.After two years of campaigning and making reforms, Chile was invited to join the OECD, becoming the first South American country to join and second behind Mexico in Latin America. Chile becomes the 31st member of the OECD.Measures Chile adopted to pave...
- External links 2009-12-16
- How Does $9000 Gold Sound?
- Marc Chandler submits: In recent days the Canadian and Swedish central banks have joined the majority of other G10 central banks by indicating that they too may engage in quantitative easing now that the interest rates have been reduced to 25 and 50 basis points respectively. The ECB is...
- External links 2009-04-26
- Polish Political Scandal Could Signal Zloty Opportunity
- Marc Chandler submits:News that Polish Prime Minister Tusk is using the recent alleged corruption scandal to re-jig his cabinet in an attempt to rebuild support for his ruling Civic Platform Party has weighed on the zloty, as a wave of profit-taking on its strong 3-day advance is seen. Public support...
- External links 2009-10-07
- Brazil's New Real Tax: Minimizing Exposure Through ADRs
- Marc Chandler submits:Investors continue to grapple with the 2% front-end tax on Brazilian Real purchases for bond and equity investments. One might expect that the efficiency of the market is such that arbitrage will keep the ADR in line with what one would pay for the local shares,...
- External links 2009-11-04
- Brazil Mulling Increased Currency Intervention?
- Marc Chandler submits:Media reports are playing up local press stories that Brazil officials are evaluating additional measures to slow capital inflows which are driving the Brazilian real higher. The 2% tax may have led to some greater volatility in the currency, but net-net the currency remains firm. Other ideas being...
- External links 2009-11-05
- Czech Reports This Week Could Spur Euro Rally
- Marc Chandler submits:The euro has slumped around 4% against the Czech koruna since November 2nd, and the news stream from Czech Republic has not been that supportive, giving the impression that koruna is being lifted by generalized factors.This has been a particularly difficult year for Czech politics. Recall that the...
- External links 2009-11-09
- Taiwan Pulls a Brazil
- Marc Chandler submits:Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission on Tuesday announced that, effective immediately, foreign investors were banned from parking funds in time deposits. Moreover, foreign investors cannot extend their existing time deposits when they mature.The ostensible reason for the ban is to curb currency speculation, according to officials. As of the...
- External links 2009-11-10
- Poland and Israel: We Want in on the Global Recovery, Too
- Marc Chandler submits:While the Asian recovery story is front and center Wednesday with the slew of Chinese data, including the nearly doubling of its monthly trade surplus, and Japanese machinery orders showing more than twice the expected rise, trade data from Poland and Israel provides additional evidence of the synchronized...
- External links 2009-11-11
- Eastern European Recovery Still Lags Behind Euro Zone
- Marc Chandler submits:Of the major industrialized countries, only Japan and Canada have not reported Q3 GDP estimates. Japan reports on Monday and is expected to have expanded at almost the same pace as the US. On the quarter, the US expanded by almost 0.9%, while the Japanese economy may have...
- External links 2009-11-13
- The Potential Impacts of Dubai's Financial Crisis
- Marc Chandler submits:A storm broke out last week, emanating from the part of the world that is widely seen as a major beneficiary of the rise in oil prices. Yet Dubai’s story is not about oil. Indeed it is precisely the absence of oil and natural gas (less than 6%...
- External links 2009-11-30
- A New 2009 High for the Mexican Peso
- Marc Chandler submits:An upward revision in the central bank of Mexico's inflation forecasts announced Wednesday propelled the peso to new highs for the year on ideas that the new forecasts are a signal of a rate hike early next year. We suspect that the market is seeing what it wants...
- External links 2009-12-03
- Turkish Lira Facing Independent Pressure
- Marc Chandler submits:As the dollar rallies on constructive economic news, emerging market currencies are being hit by a wave of profit-taking. However, there is independent pressure on the Turkish lira. The Constitutional Court just banned the main pro-Kurdish political party for links to militants and 37 members have been banned...
- External links 2009-12-11
Additional Resources
- Fed: The Credit Crisis' Impact on the Dollar
- Marc Chandler submits:The October issue of the NY Fed's monthly Current Issue was just released. There is an article that may prove interesting to further understand how the crisis impacted the dollar. It is written by Niall Coffey, the chief dealer for foreign exchange and a financial specialist in...
- External links 2009-10-28
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