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The yen rose from a 4-1/2-year low against the dollar after Japan's economy minister suggested the currency might have weakened enough.
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The yen rose from a 4-1/2-year low against the dollar after Japan's economy minister suggested the currency might have weakened enough.
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LONDON, May 20- The yen lifted off a 4-1/ 2- year low against the dollar on Monday after Japan's economy minister suggested the currency might have weakened enough, prompting some investors to pare bets against it. Last Friday, the dollar reached a high of 103.32 yen, while the euro hovered near a 3-1/ 2- year peak of 132.78 yen.
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Portugal's top bankers have called on Europe's leaders to stop "playing with fire" and moderate their stance towards the euro zone periphery, or risk instilling alarm among bank depositors in future, the FT reports.
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Frederic Neumann, MD and co-head of Asian economics research at HSBC, discusses German politics and the rise of 'get-out-of-euro' parties and what it would mean for Merkel come September.
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Peter Whitley, Senior FX Analyst at Thomson Reuters says to short AUD/USD and NZD/USD on any rally.
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The dollar rose against a swath of currencies on Friday, rocketing to 4 1/2-year high against Japan's yen.
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German ECB board member Joerg Asmussen warned on Friday that Europe's largest economy must carry out further reforms to continue to grow.
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NEW YORK, May 17- The dollar soared against a basket of currencies on Friday, reaching a nearly three-year peak as debate over whether the Federal Reserve would wind down its asset buying program later this year gathered pace.
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LONDON, May 17- The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Friday, trading near a 10- month high as debate over whether the Federal Reserve would wind down its asset buying programme later this year gathered pace.
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*MSCI Asia Pacific ex- Japan edges lower. At 0604 GMT, futures for Euro STOXX 50, Germany's DAX and France's CAC were 0.1 to 0.4 percent lower. U.S. equities had sagged on Thursday after John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said the Fed could begin easing back on the monetary gas pedal this summer and end bond buying late this year.
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The U.S. dollar recovered to trade higher against the euro and yen late Thursday afternoon in a volatile session that saw the U.S. currency swing between gains and losses.
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NEW YORK, May 16- The U.S. dollar recovered to trade higher against the euro and yen late Thursday afternoon in a volatile session that saw the U.S. currency swing between gains and losses. The move higher came after John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said the U.S.
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*Dollar curbs gains vs euro, yen after U.S. data. NEW YORK, May 16- The dollar dropped against the euro and Japanese yen on Thursday as a deluge of U.S. data highlighted vulnerabilities in the U.S. economy, curbing expectations that the Federal Reserve will scale back its bond buying program any time soon.
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Bernard Connolly, Connolly Insight CEO, explains why he believes the integration of Europe and the euro is a "disaster," with CNBC's Rick Santelli.
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LONDON, May 16- Copper rose on Thursday, rebounding from earlier falls, as the dollar weakened against the euro and a basket of currencies, but further gains for the metal were capped by concern about lacklustre demand from top consumer China. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange rose 0.3 percent to $7,220 a tonne at 1435 GMT, up $7,198 on Wednesday.
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*Dollar curbs gains vs euro, yen after U.S. data. NEW YORK, May 16- The dollar edged lower against the euro and pared gains versus the Japanese yen on Thursday as U.S. data releases highlighted vulnerabilities in the U.S. economy, curbing expectations that the Federal Reserve will scale back its asset-buying program.
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France's fall back into recession is likely to pile more pressure on the country's finance ministry, at a time when infighting has already led one senior politician to fuel rumors that Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici could be replaced.
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LONDON, May 16- Weak data fanned expectations on Thursday of more central bank action in Europe, keeping yield-hungry investors focused on the region's stock markets and the dollar near a six-week high against the euro.
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*Dollar recovers after soft U.S. manufacturing-driven fall. TOKYO, May 16- The dollar held close to a 4-1/ 2 year high against the yen on Thursday, with buying from Japanese importers helping it to recoup some of the losses suffered after disappointing U.S. industrial data, while the euro wobbled near a six-week low.
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Michael Gallagher, director of research at IDEAglobal, warns that a risk-off phase is about to start, prompting a 10% decline in European stocks as well as a fall in EUR/USD and governments' bond yields.