Dollar slides

To 19-month low against the Euro. Funniest line of the article: "On Friday, China warned other countries that holding excessive dollar reserves may not be a good idea ." My italics.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Ironic considering that China passed the one trillion mark last quarter!!

George
6:50 PM
Jonathan C said…
I do agree with Amaury that Ben Bernanke has fewer policies degrees of freedom with which to play the policy game compared to his predecessor Alan Greenspan.
1:09 PM
Anonymous said…
the funny thing about it is people are analysing some random speculation.
10:36 AM
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