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Foreign Exchange - UK Daily Update - Friday, October 17, 2008 7:21 - 0 Comments
Recession Worries Dominant Sentiment - World First’s Morning Update - 17th October 2008
Recession concerns dominated sentiment yesterday, causing massive falls on most major equity indices worldwide and a continuation of the flight to safety theme seen in the currency markets.
European share markets plummeted with the FTSE, France’s CAC and Germany’s DAX all recording large losses, all but undoing the early week’s hard earned gains. The US indices actually managed some gains late in the day and the dollar strengthened marginally on the back of this. The big mover of the day was the Korean Won which lost nearly 10% yesterday, its largest one day decline in over a decade.
Yesterday’s data from the US seemed to confirm sentiment that a recession is at foot, with the US Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index plunging to levels not seen since January 2001 and industrial production figures also falling. CPI arrived at 4.9%, down from 5.4% in September. This easing of inflation outlook seems set to continue as oil prices also fell below the $70 per barrel mark, over half the price of July’s lofty highs.
The exchange of 18 billion dollars in options contracts later today may provide some interesting movements as the data due is reasonably light. The US has Housing starts and Consumer confidence figures due for release while the Euro trade deficit figure looks set to widen this morning
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Indicative Rates |
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Sell |
Buy |
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GBPEUR |
1.2860 |
1.2888 |
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GBPUSD |
1.7338 |
1.7364 |
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EURUSD |
1.3467 |
1.3491 |
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GBPJPY |
175.52 |
176.13 |
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GBPAUD |
2.5260 |
2.5320 |
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GBPNZD |
2.8192 |
2.8265 |
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GBPCAD |
2.0465 |
2.0530 |
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NZDUSD |
0.6095 |
0.6185 |
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GBPZAR |
17.22 |
17.70 |
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USDZAR |
9.97 |
10.23 |
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GBPPLN |
4.5616 |
4.6024 |
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Rates are dependent on amount transacted |
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