Thursday, March 10, 2005

The Dollar

Has resumed its downward direction.
Having slumped to multi-month lows against its major counterparts on Wednesday, the dollar suffered another blow on Thursday after Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told parliament that, generally speaking, diversity in foreign exchange reserves was a good thing.
Meanwhile, Greenspan tried to change the subject:
"The resolution of our current account deficit and household debt burdens does not strike me as overly worrisome, but that is certainly not the case for our fiscal deficit," Greenspan said in prepared remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
From Yahoo Finance, a graph of Dollar vs. Euro:

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