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Banks step in as dollar tumbles

Source: BBC
Taipei : Taiwan | about 1 month ago  
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  • Employee of foreign exchange trading company walks past the rate of the Japanese yen against the U.S. dollar in Tokyo
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  • Man moves past electronic board displaying graph of movement of exchange rates between U.S. dollar and Japanese yen in Tokyo
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Asian countries are worried about their export industries, which would be hurt by a weaker dollar. Central banks in South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and Thailand have been buying the US currency, traders said. As signs of economic recovery begin to emerge, traders have switched from the traditionally...
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    “I don't think this is just notional, but I don't think they are massively intervening either,” said Adam Gilmour, a Citigroup managing director who is co-head of the bank's Asia Pacific foreign exchange and derivatives businesses. ...
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