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AnkleJoint ha scritto:scusate, ma sono un pò rimbambito, questo pomeriggio non seguivo e non riesco a trovare informazioni... cosa caspita è successo al dollaro/euro alle 16,30 ?
l'elicottero di Bernanke era senza benzina ?
beh allora sarebbe salito l'oil!!
Forex - Euro dives on dovish ECB comments UPDATE
Wed, Jan 16 2008, 16:48 GMT
http://www.afxnews.com
(Adds detail, updates exchange rate)
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - The euro fell sharply on dovish comments from a euro zone central banker, before hitting support levels and appearing to stabilise at weaker levels.
Yves Merkel, Luxembourg central bank chief and member of the European Central Bank, said in an interview that "there are factors that mitigate inflation risks" and suggested the ECB could "look through" temporary high levels of inflation to the growth risks beyond.
The downside risks to the euro zone economy have increased, he signalled.
"Yves Mersch's transformation from hawk to dove has amazed the market," said Peter Wadkins at Thomson IFR Markets.
"The market realizes this is a sea-change in policy, and the implications are enormous," he added, predicting that ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet will also reveal a more dovish tone in the days to come.
Markets have previously understood the ECB would not cut interest rates for some time, due to inflation concerns.
Ian Stannard at BNP Paribas said the euro will likely suffer a great deal from the dovish rhetoric.
"We're now seeing fairly broad-based euro weakness coming in, and I'd expect further euro losses," he said.
"We should see euro/dollar head back down towards the 1.46 usd/1.45 usd area," he said. If the rate breaks below that level, the euro could pull back firmly to 1.45 usd, he said.
At 4.25 pm GMT the euro was trading around 1.4640 usd, sharply down from its afternoon peak of 1.4833 just before 3.00 pm GMT, but bouncing off a low of 1.4594.
Against the Japanese yen, the single currency weakened to from around 156.85 yen from around 158.10 at 3.00 pm GMT, but again bouncing slightly off lows as the market digested the comments.
"A move under 156.50 yen and 156.20 is likely, with bears looking for euro/yen to fall under 150.00 in sessions to come," said Thomson IFR Markets' Rhonda Staskow.
The single currency also weakened sharply against the pound, to around 0.7460 stg from around 0.7520 at 3.00 pm GMT.
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