Forex News

The South African rand extended its rally today for the fifth day as the prices for platinum and gold rose and the central bank kept the benchmark rate unchanged.

The European currency surged against the Japanese yen and the other major Forex-traded currencies today as the traders reacted to the signs of the global economy recovery with buying high-yielding assets and currencies financed by relatively cheap loans in USD and JPY.

The Great Britain pound today reached its lowest value against the Japanese yen since 11th of July, 2006, continuing the strong bearish trend that has started during early November 2007.

While the Japanese yen is surely a benefiting currency when it comes to the carry trade panic, some currencies feel extremely bearish at the times of global financial instability and other factors that bring down risk appetites. New Zealand dollar is one such currency.

U.S. dollar is likely to replace Japanese yen on the carry trade arena as the short currency. According to the currency pairs yield analysis, Great Britain pound, Brazilian real and Hungarian forint combined made over 17% against dollar this year, while buying those currencies against yen yielded only 9%.

Japanese yen restarted its falling against other world currencies today (even against the dropping dollar) as the risk hungry investors begin to reenter carry trades. While the Nikkei 225 index gained a little more than 1 percent — first rising day after four consecutive losing days, Yen lost more than 1 percent of its value to the high-yielding currencies.