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FT Hard Currency

FT Hard Currency


FT Hard Currency

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Length:
219 episodes
Language:
English
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Podcast

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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 largest market. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episodes1 - 10 of 219 episodes

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Death of the dollar bears

The US currency's ascent in 2018 has surprised many analysts and investors. The reflati...

10 minutes
Oct 04, 2018

Markets on horns of euro-dollar dilemma

A Federal Reserve rate rise had little impact on the dollar while ECB president Mario D...

10 minutes
Sep 27, 2018

Brexit, trade tensions, and why investors don't look too fussed

Trade tensions are hotting up, Brexit talks are souring and the Federal Reserve is gear...

11 minutes
Sep 20, 2018

Wages growth pays dividend for euro and sterling

Inflation strength in Europe and the the UK and weakness in the US were important facto...

11 minutes
Sep 13, 2018

EM can't catch a break

A week dominated by falls in emerging market currencies, notably the South African rand...

11 minutes
Sep 06, 2018

Pushed around by politics

The British pound, Argentina's peso and Turkey's lira: all of them in the news and all ...

8 minutes
Aug 30, 2018

Troubling Trump depresses the dollar

The dollar came under pressure on two fronts this week - Donald Trump's impeachment ris...

11 minutes
Aug 23, 2018

Turkish turmoil raises markets' temperature

Turkey's troubled lira, worries about emerging market currencies and the impact of sanc...

12 minutes
Aug 16, 2018

Dollar to drive on, pound to stay pat

Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell this week injected renewed vigour into the dollar, whi...

11 minutes
Jul 19, 2018

Pound takes a pass on Boris blow-out

Investors treated the UK foreign secretary's resignation with little concern, leaving t...

12 minutes
Jul 12, 2018