Sunday, November 3, 2013

What Determines FX Rates? - SNBCHF.COM

What Determines FX Rates? - SNBCHF.COM: "After the year 2000, central banks claimed the defeat of inflation and left interest rates low. As a consequence, banks provided cheap credit to home owners of countries with trade deficits. During that period the only thing that counted were high rates and yields on investments. Exchange rates of low-inflation countries like Japan and Switzerland fell. However, the outcome was the Great Recession."

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