Can money be called a “commodity”? What do Islamic scholars say about this idea? Before we get to these questions, let us briefly go over some important points regarding how Islamic banks differ from conventional banks the whole focus of our ongoing discussion through this column over the past few weeks. An Islamic bank deploys […]
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Russian Central Bank wants to become a serious policy maker
MOSCOW, February 9. (By Marina Pustilnik RIA Novosti commentator). Last week the Central Bank of the Russian Federation announced that it began targeting the ruble exchange rate against a euro-dollar basket. The bank said in a statement it had begun targeting a dual currency basket – made up of 90 U.S. cents and 10 euro […]
BoE’s King says EU, US, Asia must acknowledge forex interdependency
LONDON (AFP) – Bank of England governor Mervyn King said that Europe, the US and Asia must acknowledge their interdependency on the foreign exchange front, instead of blaming each other for large forex movements. Speaking at the Advancing Enterprise conference ahead of the G7 meeting, King said large countries “cannot ignore their interdependency” when it […]
FOREX-Dollar rises, inspired by investment flows report
NEW YORK, Jan 18 (Reuters) – The dollar climbed on Tuesday after data showed investments coming into the United States were more than enough to cover the country’s huge trade deficit on a monthly basis. “The U.S. dollar has rallied strongly on the news and the data cools fears that these flows would not be […]
Banking’s soldiers of fortune Foreign exchange traders on front line of currency war
By Tom Abate – San Francisco is still dark and quiet on Friday morning as traders working the currency desk at Wells Fargo stare at their computers. They are waiting for the number that will send the dollar shooting up or down against the euro and the yen — specifically, how many jobs U.S. employers […]
BM&F’s Foreign Exchange reaches US$ 1 trillion
BM&F’s Foreign Exchange reached a financial volume of US$ 1 trillion since its inauguration, in April of 2002. During this period, the net volume was US$ 147.8 billion. The Foreign Exchange Clearinghouse made it possible to reduce in 85.2%, or US$ 852 billion, the effective transference of resources. During its two years and seven months […]
Greenback loses favor in China
By Geoffrey York – Beijing — In Chinese street slang, they are known as the ”yellow bulls” — the underground traders who lurk outside the banks in aggressive pursuit of currency deals. But despite their business zeal, there is one commodity they are unwilling to buy on the street these days: U.S. dollars. “Everyone is […]
White House wants an ardent free-trader
By Alan Guebert – Even before Ann Veneman quietly submitted her resignation as secretary of agriculture Nov. 12, the Washington grapevine hung heavy with a long list of likely replacements. Not that Veneman wanted to go; she didn’t. The first two questions at her initial, post-election news conference Nov. 9 dealt with her future at […]
Follies of fiddling with the yuan
By Henry C K Liu – Dollar hegemony emerged after 1971 from the peculiar phenomenon of a fiat dollar not backed by gold or any other species of value, continuing to assume the status of the world’s main reserve currency because of the US’s geopolitical supremacy. Such currency hegemony has become a key dysfunctionality in […]
Brazil’s Real Declines 1st Day in 3 on China Export Outlook
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Brazil’s currency fell for the first day in three after China boosted interest rates, raising investor concern that demand for the country’s main commodity exports such as steel and soybeans will decline. China’s central bank today raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time in nine years, stepping up efforts […]