Monday, 10 August 2009

GBP AUD NZD Weakness continues

Sterling is still continuing to slide against the Australian Dollar and New Zealand Dollar this week hitting the lowest levels seen in a very long time.

At the time of writing this GBP - AUD was hovering above the 1.97 level and GBP - NZD just below 2.44.

It appears that Australia seem to have handled the global recession a lot better than many other economies alongside many investors continuing to partake in carry trading which always affects these currencies.

Carry trading is where an investor borrows money from an economy with a lower interest rate (USD, GBP, JPY) and invests it in an economy with a much higher interest rate (ZAR,AUD,NZD.

This is a brief summary of todays report. Click here to read the full report on our main website

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Have a great day and thanks for reading!

Daniel Wright

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