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FT Hard Currency

FT Hard Currency

By: Financial Times
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Financial Times foreign exchange correspondent Roger Blitz talks to experts on the currencies market about the week ahead, looking at the global political and economic factors driving the world’s largest market.

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  • Death of the dollar bears

    Death of the dollar bears
    4 Oct 2018

    The US currency's ascent in 2018 has surprised many analysts and investors. The reflation trade that followed the election of Donald Trump was not expected to last. Stephen Gallo of the Bank of Montreal tells Michael Hunter why the rally has endured, and outlines the wider factors setting the pace for the euro, emerging market currencies and the pound.


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    11 mins
  • Markets on horns of euro-dollar dilemma

    Markets on horns of euro-dollar dilemma
    27 Sep 2018
    A Federal Reserve rate rise had little impact on the dollar while ECB president Mario Draghi drove the euro higher with optimistic comments on eurozone wages and inflation. But is that enough for a sustained market push to buy euros and sell dollars? Jeremy Thomson-Cook of World First gives his thoughts to Roger Blitz and looks at the the effect of growing trade tensions on emerging market currencies

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    11 mins
  • Brexit, trade tensions, and why investors don't look too fussed

    Brexit, trade tensions, and why investors don't look too fussed
    20 Sep 2018
    Trade tensions are hotting up, Brexit talks are souring and the Federal Reserve is gearing up for another rate hike, yet currencies in the firing line, from emerging markets to sterling, seem unperturbed. Jane Foley of Rabobank tells Roger Blitz why currency moves are not reverting to type

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    12 mins
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