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The yen vaulted to two-week highs against the dollar and the euro on Thursday as a slide in equities encouraged profit-taking on the safe-haven currency's recent sharp falls.
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The financial services industry must be allowed to breathe in order to avoid a mass exodus out of London, Lord Levene, former chairman of Lloyd's of London, told CNBC.
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With the Swiss franc tumbling after the central bank's intervention, you need a Plan B for a safe haven. Here's a ranking of your options.
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With the financial system facing renewed stress and global growth faltering economists at Goldman Sachs are predicting Britain will embark on a second round of quantitative easing in the coming months.
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Web-only advice and information for currency traders, with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money In Motion traders.
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The final word from the currency pits, with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money In Motion traders.
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How to identify technical patterns that could make you money, with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money In Motion traders.
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How to manage a winning currency trade. On July 22nd, Rebecca made a bullish bet on the Swiss franc. And the Swiss franc soars as the safety trade returns, with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money In Motion traders.
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With the fed out of bullets, can the ECB save the global economy? The currency trade behind next week's ECB meeting, with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money in Motion traders. And will the Bank of Japan intervene again when it meets next week?
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The current UK depression will be the longest since at least the first world war. Without a dramatic surge in growth, it is also quite likely to generate a bigger cumulative loss of output than the “great depression”, Martin Wolf writes in the FT.
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Brazil slashes interest rates and manufacturing reports disappoint in Europe and Britain — it's time for your Thursday FX Fix.
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The British Chamber of Commerce cut its growth forecasts for the UK for this year and next and said the weaker-than-predicted economy means interest rates will have to stay low longer than expected.
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Web-only advice and information for currency traders, with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money In Motion traders.
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How to identify technical patterns that could make you money, with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money In Motion traders.
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How to manage a winning currency trade. On July 27th, Andy made a bullish bet on the New Zealand dollar, with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money In Motion traders.
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Trading Trichet and Bernanke. Will Trichet soften his tone at Jackson Hole? And the currency trade behind the conference, with Michelle Meyer, BofA Merrill Lynch, and CNBC's Melissa Lee & the Money in Motion traders.
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Short sellers and securities lenders have remained calm in spite of controversial short selling bans for bank stocks introduced in Europe this month, the FT says.
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"For the Swiss franc to look like an attractive funding currency again when it is in competition with so many other currencies at the moment we would need to see....direct intervention on the part of the Swiss National Bank," Adam Cole, head of currency strategy, RBC. He added that he did not expect much in the way of dovish comments from Fed chairman Ben Bernanke when he speaks on Friday.
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Despite the widespread gloom, the consensus is that Britain will not re-enter a recession, Norma Cohen writes in the FT.
