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To: Brilliant

Can anyone explain why has the dollar stabilized over the last 30 days and why it isn’t responding to today’s Fed rate cut?


4 posted on 01/22/2008 6:20:42 AM PST by kipita (“Love” is to humanity as gravitons are to an infinite # of universes.)
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To: kipita

Why has it stabilized? Because a US slowdown means we won’t be importing as much, and dollars won’t be flowing out as fast.

Why hasn’t it responded to the rate cut? From what I see, it is responding. It’s down. That’s how it responds to a rate cut. When the rates go down, the assumption is that our economy will receive a boost, and we’ll buy more imports, which causes a trade imbalance, and depresses the dollar. The dollar anticipates this effect, and falls immediately.


8 posted on 01/22/2008 6:27:05 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: kipita

Maybe it is because the other countries have their own problems to deal with.


21 posted on 01/22/2008 12:43:07 PM PST by TheLion
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