The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index went down 0.5 percent. The U.S. equities declined after the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s index of the manufacturing activity slumped to 5.1 this month from the month before. The index still suggests growth, but has fallen for two consecutive months. Crude oil, the key export of Canada, dropped as much as 2.2 percent.
The Canadian dollars seems yet again to suffer from the outside influence, this time because of the close relations with the U.S. The meeting of the central bank’s policy makers, who would set the interest rates, scheduled on July 20th. The investors bet on 0.25 percentage point increase.
USD/CAD traded at 1.0378 as of 20:35 GMT today after it opened at 1.0324. EUR/CAD climbed to about 1.3432 from the opening rate of 1.3155.
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Earlier News About the Canadian Dollar:
Canadian Dollar Rises on Good Employment Data (2010-07-09)Second Day of Gains vs. Greenback for Canadian Dollar (2010-07-07)Canadian Dollar Gains with Rebound on Global Markets (2010-07-07)Canadian Dollar Drops on Outlook for Rates & Growth (2010-07-02)Canadian Dollar Declines as Economic Growth Halts (2010-07-01)This entry was postedon Thursday, July 15th, 2010 at 10:34 pmand is filed under Canadian Dollar.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Leave a Reply
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