Forex Investment and Currency Trading

Emerging financial markets frequently track swings in advanced economy stocks. However, the close relationship between Emerging Market (EM) currencies and the S&P 500 broke in October 2007 with virtually no sign of repair since.
In 2H 2008, emerging market currency strategies will likely benefit from adhering to two main tenets
1) pursuit of relative value and 2) [...]

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USD/SGD
Sport 1.36
3 month forecast - 1.35
6 month forecast - 1.34
12 month forecast - 1.32
The SGD was essentially steady in June after appreciating sharply earlier in the year after the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) re-fixed the central rate within the policy band. Subsequently, the MAS reiterated that it would maintain its three-year-old policy of allowing [...]

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1 – 3 Month Outlook – CNY
China’s FX reserves soared by a massive $128.4bn in the first four months of the year as the authorities sought temporarily to stabilise the USD/CNY rate. Latterly, however, the Chinese currency has begun to appreciate once again, breaking below the 6.9 level. This positive trend is expected to [...]

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