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FT Hard Currency

Financial Times foreign exchange correspondent Roger Blitz talks to experts on the currencies market about the week ahead, looking at the global political and economic factors driving the world’s larg... Read more

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Mind the gap

Mind the gap

Adam Cole of RBC Capital Markets tells Katie Martin why the euro and dollar still pounce on well-known signs of contrast... Read more

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Fed can't feed the dollar beast

Fed can't feed the dollar beast

A hawkish Federal Reserve pushed the dollar higher, but investors stopped short of igniting a full-throttle greenback ra... Read more

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With the dollar at a 7 year high against the yen, Delphine Strauss, currencies correspondent, asks David Bloom, currency... Read more

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