I will be in Asia for 2 weeks, so there will be no new posts on this blog. For Currency Comments, please visit DailyFX.com
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May 31 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Asia Trader and [...]

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Here is the “In the Financial Papers Radio Broadcast” (Length: 4:01 minutes). The player should load automatically. Please let me know if you like it. Contact Kathy
In the Financial Papers:

 
Podcast Covers:
Existing Home Sales Drop, Medium Price of a Home Dropped
Asia to cut Subsidies as Oil Prices Hit $135
Ford Hit By Rising Oil
Think $4 Gas is [...]

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Oil prices are rising and the US dollar is falling, but is this the natural relationship between these two assets? Taking a look back at the two prominent oil shocks of the past four decades (1973 and 1979), we see that this is not necessarily the case.
1973 Oil Crisis: Initially Dollar [...]

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Unfortunately I am experiencing problems with my blog today. Can’t upload anything and the pages are broken. New posts will go up when things get fixed.
In the meantime, for currency comments, please go to DailyFX.com

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This is a great article authored by one of my currency analysts at DailyFX
Who could have imagined that the value of one Australian dollar could be equal to one US Dollar? As recently as the beginning of this year, parity or an exchange rate of 1.0 still seemed like a far fetched idea because at [...]

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