Currencies

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Why You Should Pay Attention to Global Currencies

The relevance of global currency movements is tough for most American investors to get their heads around.

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What Does Europe’s Adoption of So-Called Negative Interest Rates Mean for America?

The European Central Bank’s (ECB) recent move to adopt what is described as “negative interest rates” to guard...

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How to Capitalize on Deutsche Bank’s Access to Foreign Markets

Roughly one third of Deutsche Bank’s 30 exchange-traded fund (ETF) offerings provide investors with direct exposure to foreign...

Investors Try to Satisfy Their “Yen” for Safety

The yen closed Friday with its biggest weekly gains in more than a month against the euro and...

Undervalued Currencies & The Big Mac Index in 2014

The “Big Mac Index” provides a tongue-in-cheek but surprisingly useful way of measuring purchasing power parity, the relative...

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Lithuania Seeks to Join Euro Beginning in 2015

Lithuania is seeking to join the European Union's currency, the euro, beginning January 1, 2015.

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Contagion Spreads in Emerging Markets as Crises Grow

The worst sell-off in emerging-market currencies in five years is starting to show ill effects from the Federal...

Canadian Currency

Bank of Canada Talks Down its Dollar

The Bank of Canada explicitly stated that it has concerns about the strength of the Canadian dollar suppressing...

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Euro Gains on Dollar While U.S. Markets Rest

With U.S. markets closed in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the euro made a small rebound...

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Dollar Falls against Yen on Weak Jobs Data

The markets are fully feeling the impact of last Friday's disappointing jobs data, as today the U.S. dollar...