USD/JPY has recovered earlier losses and is pushing higher towards 89 after U.S. Existing Home Sales topped analyst expectations. Therefore, it seems the USD/JPY’s correlative pattern is a combination of investor appetite for the risk trade countering comparatively loose monetary policy from the Fed. Since the Fed and the BOJ…
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International Financial Outlook November, 2009
Foreign exchange rate volatility remained fairly intense last month. Interest rates were calmer but here too tensions have increased, as financial markets give more thought to when some of the extraordinary loosening of monetary policy seen over the last year will start to be reversed. On the foreign currency front,…