Friday's historic high in the price of oil had a tremendous effect on the forex currency market. As we have been riding the inflation fears for weeks, this additional increase in oil prices moved the currency markets sharply on Friday. Shortly after the early morning announcement that oil had reached a record breaking $137 dollars USD a barrel, the rise in currencies against the dollar was breath-taking. Both the cable and euro rose sharply. The EUR/USD currency pair went from a low of 15431 to a high of 1.5601. The GBP/USD had a low of 1.9441 and a high of 1.9598. For forex traders that were in the market at the time, profited from the oil price angst. As the Japanese Yen is also quite sensitive to the price of oil, the GBP/JPY consequently dropped sharply with the news.
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
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