Foreign Exchange

CURRENCY WARS   By Gordon Platt   Battle Tactics Change With Global Slowdown.   Chandler, Brown Brothers Harriman: The lingering US and European crises are casting a pall over global capital markets When the global economy seemed securely on track ...

SAME OLD, SAME OLD   By Denise Bedell   The US dollar will remain the world’s reserve currency of choice as long as there is no credible alternative.   There have long been calls for a new currency to take ...

WHO’S WHO   By Gordon Platt   Who’s who in foreign exchange.   MOHAMED EL AROUSSI Arab African International Bank Head of FX desk   Mohamed El Aroussi has been head of the foreign exchange desk at Arab African International ...

CHINA’S LOFTY AMBITIONS FOR THE RENMINBI   By Gordon Platt   The Chinese government continues to make strides in internationalizing its currency.   Qu, HSBC: Domestic demand should support 8.5% to 9% growth in the coming quarters Every long march ...

IS THE EURO CRUMBLING?   By Gordon Platt   Major reform is needed, but whether the political will is there to make large scale changes remains to be seen. The alternative may be the end of the eurozone as it ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE   By Gordon Platt   The dollar rose to an eight-month high against the euro in early October, as a further delay of Greek aid and concerns about the health of Europe’s banks gave the ...

When the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have their annual meeting in Washington DC at the end of September, the atmosphere will most probably be very tense...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE   By Gordon Platt   Safe-haven buying drove US bond yields to the lowest level since 1950, and the dollar rose as the tumultuous summer of 2011 drew to a close with no solution in ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The EU summit in July not only reached agreement on a second bailout program for Greece, but just as significantly, it gave the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) the ability to respond ...

COVER STORY — RENMINBI RISING   By Michael Shari   Multinationals are positioning themselves to capture lucrative gains from the internationalization of China’s currency.   When McDonald’s became the first non-Chinese corporation that was allowed to issue a bond denominated ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / FOREIGN EXCHANGE by Gordon Platt The euro tumbled against the dollar, the yen and the Swiss franc in mid-June, as European finance ministers reached an impasse on a second Greek aid package and demonstrators clashed with ...

EXPOSING FOREIGN EXCHANGE RISK   By Denise Bedell   Companies with international operations are looking beyond spreadsheets to get a timelier view of their global FX exposures.   Within a few hours of Osama bin Laden’s being killed, global markets ...

SPOTLIGHT: FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADING   By Anita Hawser   Technology is enabling faster and more-flexible trading in foreign exchange—and helping drive the rapid rise in daily trading volume.   Erik Lehtis, president of Chicago-based Dynamic FX Consulting, has experienced firsthand ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE   By Gordon Platt   China is planning major investments in foreign companies, including those in the US, in order to help turn its mountain of paper dollars and other currencies into hard assets and ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS：FOREIGN EXCHANGE   By Gordon Platt   Dollar Weakens As Eurozone Rates Are First To Rise     Differing monetary policy reactions to the rise in oil prices are driving currency values at the moment, while gains in ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The dollar has been drifting lower this year on expectations that the Federal Reserve will lag behind other developed-market central banks in raising interest rates to fight inflation, analysts say. Currency Forecasts ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE   By Matt Greco   Things may not look quite as bleak as they did a couple of months ago when there was talk—however irresponsible—of currency wars as trade war by other means, but international ...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE   By Denise Bedell   Contrary to some analysts' expectations, developing countries continue to view the US dollar as the reserve currency of choice, as evidenced by newly allocated official reserves of developing countries—even in ...

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