Forex - Dollar supported by falling oil prices, hawkish Fed comments - Forbes
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - The dollar remained relatively firm as falling oil prices and some fairly hawkish comments out of the U.S. Federal Reserve combined to provide the ailing U.S. currency some support. With oil prices down below $130 a …

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:10:00 GMT
BESTDirect Traders Challenge for Futures and Forex Traders Begins Monday, August 4 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
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Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:56:00 GMT
Petro-Dollar Warfare
… he U. S. dollar as the monopoly currency for the critical international oil market. … ” However, subsequent events show this strategy to be fundamentally flawed, with Iran moving forward towards a petroeuro system for international oil trades, while R ussia discusses this option…. … proposed Iranian “petroeuro system” for oil trade. … . petrodollar recycling’ and the unpublicized but real challenge to U. S. dollar supremacy from the euro as an alternative oil transaction currency….(The word “bourse” refers to a stock exchange for securities trading, and is derived from the French stock exchange in Paris, the Federation Internationale des Bourses d e Valeurs. … sher in a fourth crude oil marker â?? denominated in the euro currency….However, since the spring of 2003, Iran has required payments in the euro currency for its European and Asian/ACU exports - although the oil pricing for trades are s till denominated in the dollar….

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:49:00 EDT
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