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Westpac tops tables by backing euro
Westpac topped the one-month currency forecast rankings this week with expectations the euro would maintain its strength over the US dollar and yen.
Chasing the perfect storm
Monica Fan, senior currency product engineer at State Street Global Advisors based in London, assesses the prospects for the US dollar in 2010 and what it would take for cyclical recovery to occur
TD Securities: Fed holds key to USD recovery
TD Securities continues to be bearish on the US dollar over the short and medium term
Sticking to fundamentals
Callum Henderson, global head of foreign exchange research at Standard Chartered in Singapore, warns of a violent US dollar upside correction in the first half of 2010
Citi topples UBS as leading CLS third-party provider
Citi has pipped UBS to the post to become the leading provider of CLS third-party services, in a year where settlement risk management remained the single most significant risk to the foreign exchange market.
A changing longer-term dollar paradigm
Pete Luxton, global economic adviser at Informa Global Markets in London says the dollar may be reaching a turning point
Saxo Bank's reality check pays off
Saxo Bank topped the 12-month historical index rankings this week by keeping an eye on the disparity between market sentiment and the reality of market fundamentals.
Sharp dollar carry trade unwind ruled out
A rise in dollar interest rates is unlikely to lead to a frantic scramble to close out short dollar positions, according to analysts polled by FX Week .
The Brazilian real: Can it be reined in?
Simon Derrick, chief currency markets strategist at BNY Mellon in London discusses Brazil, its capital controls, and the implications for other emerging economies
CMC's 12-month USD view on the money
CMC Markets topped this week's 12-month currency forecast rankings with expectations that the dollar would bear the brunt of any stabilisation in global equities and resulting improvement in risk appetite.
Diode decoupling
While there is increasing optimism about the global economy's rebound, the growth story is fractured. Asia - especially China but also South Korea, among others - is seeing strong growth while Western economies lag, says Paul Mortimer-Lee, strategist at…
Asia congress: Collateral issues crucial post-crisis
SINGAPORE - Terence Oh, head of foreign exchange prime services for the Asia-Pacific at UBS, called for better collateral management in light of the lessons learned from the global crisis, at the FX Week Asia congress in Singapore last Tuesday.