Hard Currency
  • Currency wars - fact or fiction? Feb 17, 2013 - 4:00 pm
  • Georgette Boele, currency strategist at ABN Amro, joins currencies correspondent Alice Ross to discuss whether it is fair to say countries such as Japan are engaging in competitive attempts to devalue, what the latest economic data mean for the euro and the implications of the hawkish signals the Swedish Riksbank has been sending
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  • The FT's currency show takes a hard look at what's driving the largest market in the world, discussing market trends, political and economic factors affecting global currencies. Correspondent Alice Ross talks to global experts on the foreign exchange market about their views on the week ahead





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