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Sterling hits two-month low versus dollar

Sterling fell below the $1.60 level against the dollar for the first time in more than two months on Tuesday after a disappointing revision of UK third-quarter growth

Humbled dollar fights back

Opinion is divided on the factors behind the currency’s reversal of fortunes following it’s 16-month low in November, writes Peter Garnham

New Zealand GDP growth disappoints

New Zealand recorded unexpectedly sluggish growth in the third quarter underlining fears the country’s emergence from its worse recession in decades will be slower than predicted

Swiss franc hit by talk of intervention

Dollar consolidates its recent gains after hitting a three-month high on a trade-weighted basis last week, while Canadian dollar rises on strong data

Insight: Testing times for gilts and sterling

The US has China, Dubai has Abu Dhabi, but who, wonders Charles Dumas at Lombard Street, is Britain’s ’sugar daddy’?

Lex: The resurgent dollar

Investment Bible, Lesson One: whenever universal agreement is reached, the opposite soon follows. So it seems for the dollar

German business confidence surges

Country’s business confidence surges to the highest level since mid-2008, confirming that the economic recovery in Europe’s largest economy remains on track

Retail sales slip back in November

UK sales lost momentum at the end of the year, dimming hopes that frantic Christmas shopping ahead of the rise in value added tax in January would deliver a boost to growth in the final quarter

Labour market shows signs of recovery

Unemployment in the UK rose by just 21,000 to 2.49m in the three months to October, the smallest quarterly increase for 18 months, underlining a turnround in the labour market that has surprised even the government

Reserve currency of little benefit to US

Far from enjoying an “exorbitant privilege” from the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency, the advantages to the US are modest, says a McKinsey report

ECB calls time on 12-month liquidity offer

Institutional investors confident for 2010

Lex: Tense pegs

Higher fuel prices push up UK inflation

Dubai relief sharpens risk appetite

Fall in short positions bodes well for dollar

Eurozone industrial output falls

Greek bond signal to eurozone

Bank of England maintains course

Pound sinks after UK finance report

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