Japan’s finance minister says ‘speculative’ moves in currency market impacting yen
The yen has been on a downtrend despite the BOJ’s decision on March 19 to end eight years of negative interest rates. Natanael Ginting |...
Nigeria’s central bank hikes interest rate to 24.75% as it battles sky-high inflation, currency crisis
A pedestrian in the Lagos Island district of Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Central Bank of...
U.S. dollar could soon wipe out all of its post-pandemic gains, Soc Gen strategist warns
The slide in the U.S. dollar in the last eight months could mean that mean all of its gains in the wake of the coronavirus...
Why Washington and Wall Street are worried about the ‘de-dollarization’ threat
A “de-dollarization” mania is gripping Washington and Wall Street. Wall Street analysts, corporations, policy wonks and others are trying to ascertain whether there is any...
Big question with dollar under fire from rival countries and currencies: What happens to markets if the greenback loses its dominance?
The International Monetary Fund, not the Bank for International Settlements, added China’s yuan to its Special Drawing Rights basket. This story has been corrected. Probably...
Fed’s Bullard doesn’t see a looming credit crunch that would push economy into a recession
In the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, conventional wisdom has been that banks will cut lending, known as a credit crunch, that...
Fed’s Bullard doesn’t want to ‘stall’ on getting interest rates over 5%
The Federal Reserve should not “stall” on raising its benchmark rates until they are above 5%, said St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, on Wednesday....
U.S. dollar is now slicing through key technical levels ‘like a hot knife in butter’
The U.S. dollar is back on the upswing and headed toward the year-to-date highs seen in mid-July following a period of relative dormancy over the...
Why one economist fears the Japanese yen could be headed for a destabilizing downward spiral
A prominent economist has begun to worry that Japan’s widening trade deficit could eliminate the last pillar of support for the world’s third-most widely used...
Euro continues to slide toward dollar parity — and could fall even further
A financial trader monitors data as a television shows euro currency banknotes at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany. Martin Leissl | Bloomberg | Getty...