Forex Crunch » usd/chf parity http://www.forexcrunch.com Forex Trading with a Personal Touch Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:58:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Parity Party for the Swissy http://www.forexcrunch.com/parity-party-for-the-swissy/ http://www.forexcrunch.com/parity-party-for-the-swissy/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:49:49 +0000 Yohay http://www.forexcrunch.com/?p=4149 The Swiss Franc has reached parity with the US dollar. Apart from the general weakness of the greenback across the board, also the Swiss National Bank has a role in bringing USD/CHF to 1.

USD/CHF reached a year-to-date low of 0.9960 and trades now at a perfect 1.0000. The pair last reached this rate in April 2008. The Swissy enjoys general dollar weakness – this sent EUR/USD to 1.5140.

Read the rest of the article Parity Party for the Swissy]]> http://www.forexcrunch.com/parity-party-for-the-swissy/feed/ 0 Dollar fights back – weekly roundup http://www.forexcrunch.com/dollar-fights-back-weekly-roundup/ http://www.forexcrunch.com/dollar-fights-back-weekly-roundup/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:25 +0000 Yohay http://www.forexcrunch.com/?p=3948 The dollar isn’t giving up so easily. This sent some currencies down, while others are stuck in a range. Bernanke’s speech at the beginning of the week was quite confusing, but his mention of the currency markets moved the them. Only the Yen gained against the greenback. Let’s see which currencies did better than others.

The US dollar index made a nice rise this week, moving from 74.82 to 75.66, somewhat stopping the landslide. The comeback of the greenback, that was very strong two weeks ago, was probably more than a short episode:

Read the rest of the article Dollar fights back – weekly roundup]]> http://www.forexcrunch.com/dollar-fights-back-weekly-roundup/feed/ 0 The Race to Parity http://www.forexcrunch.com/parity-race/ http://www.forexcrunch.com/parity-race/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:10 +0000 Yohay http://www.forexcrunch.com/?p=2562 A new wave of dollar weakness brings the Canadian dollar and the Swiss Franc closer to parity. Both just made strong moves, but have different characteristics.

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