Archive for  December 2012
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Yields on Brazil's interest-rate futures rose sharply on Friday after higher-than-forecast inflation data reduced the scope for additional monetary easing next year, while the Mexican peso gained after encouraging US payrolls data. Bets that Brazil
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The US dollar gained against the euro on Friday for the third straight day after the release of better-than-expected US jobs data, but less-encouraging details within the report should limit the currency's gains ahead of
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Key Euribor bank-to-bank lending rates fell on Friday, a day after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said the bank discussed cutting interest rates at its December meeting but in the end decided to leave
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Currency speculators slashed bullish bets on the US dollar for a second straight week while they increased short yen positions to a more than five-year high, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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The Canadian dollar strengthened for the fourth straight session and jumped to a one-month high against the US dollar on Friday, after both the Canadian and US economies added more jobs than expected in November.
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Bullish bets on the Philippine peso rose to the highest in more than two years during the past two weeks, while investors almost doubled long positions on the Malaysian ringgit, a Reuters poll showed on
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The Australian radio station behind a prank phone call to a London hospital that was treating Prince William's pregnant wife Kate said on Saturday it had done nothing wrong and no one could have foreseen
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians, many waving green flags or wearing green headbands, filled a central Gaza City square Saturday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Islamist Hamas movement. The square was decorated with
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Syria warned on Saturday that rebels could use chemical weapons in their fight against President Bashar al-Assad's forces, and insisted that the regime will never unleash such arms on its own people. British Foreign Secretary
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The United States granted 180-day waivers on Iran sanctions to China, India and a number of other countries on Friday in exchange for their cutting purchases of oil from the Islamic Republic. President Barack Obama's
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