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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: Brilliant
Because a US slowdown means we won’t be importing as much, and dollars won’t be flowing out as fast.

Okay! It's similar dynamics as to the price of oil.

11 posted on 01/22/2008 6:39:17 AM PST by kipita (“Love” is to humanity as gravitons are to an infinite # of universes.)
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