Archive for  February 2005
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The Indian rupee ended steady on Monday as a watchful central bank stepped in once again to limit the local currency's gains, dealers said. The rupee finished at 43.8150/8300 per dollar, a marginal 0.05 percent
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The Australian dollar retreated on Monday from the 79 US cents level it had earlier breached for the first time since November on option-related selling. The Aussie was $0.7876/77, pulling back around 30 basis points
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The yen hovered near a 1 1/2-month low against the euro on Monday, meeting cross-selling pressure from higher yielding currencies amid signs of weakness in the Japanese economy. The yen was hobbled by last week's
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The Swiss franc was little changed against the dollar in early European trade on Monday, as traders looked ahead to key US and Swiss data later this week. Investors will eye US consumer price data
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Asian currencies shrugged off the weakness in the Japanese yen on Monday and held their ground, despite the increasing threat of regional central bank interventions. The Philippine peso was among the only currencies to weaken
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The Hong Kong dollar hovered near its linked exchange rate of 7.80 to the US dollar on Monday, reigning worries about imminent fund outflows, dealers said. "The market is still affected by the interest rate
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The yuan ended unchanged at 8.2764 per US dollar on Monday, near the stronger end of its managed trading range. The one-year non-deliverable dollar forward discount versus the yuan was at 3,200 points, implying a
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Australia's Adam Scott completed a second-round 66 on Sunday to join American Chad Campbell atop the leaderboard at the PGA Tour's rain-ravaged Los Angeles stop, and could only hope the weather gave him a chance
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Roger Federer triumphed in his 15th straight final without a loss on Sunday as he shut down the big game of Ivan Ljubicic 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (7/5) to finally lift a trophy at the 782,250-euros
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Reigning Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova has her ambition charted out for the future - stay healthy to become the world number one. The Russian teenage tennis queen flew into Doha for the 600,000 dollar Qatar
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