...added in August. In addition, the dollar got a boost from hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President William Poole, who said that the neutral level of interest rates might lie between 3 and 5%. Elsewhere, surging oil prices to fresh record highs lifted the dollar to a one-week peak against the yen due to Japan's sole dependence on oil imports.
The Czech crown jumped to 2-week peaks versus the euro earlier on Wednesday on the back of robust foreign trade figures, before getting rid of a part of its previous gains later in the session. August foreign trade balance showed a deficit of 2.4 billion crowns, the lowest gap for that month since 1995. Market expectations had been for a 3.8 billion crown shortfall.
|
FX RATES |
| USD/CZK |
25.540/570 |
| USD/GBP |
1.7797/2 |
| EUR/CHF |
1.5532/43 |
| EUR/CZK |
31.400/44 |
| USD/YEN |
111.14/17 |
| EUR/GBP |
0.6905/8 |
| EUR/USD |
1.2294/99 |
| EUR/YEN |
136.58/74 |
|
STOCK MARKETS |
| NIKKEI |
11354.59 |
–30.79 |
| EUROSTOXX 50 |
2831.88 |
+1.76 |
| FTSE 100 |
4706.3 |
–0.8 |
| DAX 30 |
4049.66 |
+0.95 |
| DJ INDEX |
10239.92 |
+62.24 |
| NASDAQ |
1971.03 |
+15.53 |
| PX 50 |
878.5 |
+6.5 |
| GOLD |
418.25/+419.00 |
- |
| DEPOSIT RATES |
| | CZK | USD | EUR | YEN |
| ON | 2.40-2.50 | 1.76-1.79 | 2.10-2.15 | --- |
| 3M | 2.62-2.72 | 2.00-2.03 | 2.12-2.15 | -0.04-0.01 |
| 6M | 2.80-2.90 | 2.19-2.22 | 2.18-2.21 | -0.02-0.03 |
