May 7th, 2015
By Ricky Bean
The Australian dollar rose against its US counterpart on Wednesday, despite the release of weaker than expected retail sales figures; this was 0.3% in March, but...
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May 6th, 2015
By Smart Currency
The Canadian dollar was expected to start the four day week in a strong fashion, before its own local data slipped up. It had benefited in the first instance from the...
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May 5th, 2015
By Ricky Bean
The Japanese yen struggled at the end of last week after a number of pieces of poor data. The overall consensus was that the Japanese economy is struggling to maintain...
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May 1st, 2015
By Ricky Bean
On Thursday, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand voted to keep interest rates at 3.5%. It has also adopted an easing bias, and removed its previous talk of possible future...
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April 30th, 2015
By Ricky Bean
The New Zealand dollar had a mid-week stumble on Wednesday, when it fell lower against the US dollar. Statistics New Zealand reported that the country’s trade...
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April 29th, 2015
By Smart Currency
Tuesday saw Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Glenn Stephen’s make his monthly comments on the state of the economy, as well as looking ahead to...
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