Other currencies benefit from US weakness

A busy week for the central banks. Japan and Switzerland kept their interest rates at current levels while Norway, as expected, cut theirs and highlighted further cuts were more than likely.

We also had the impact of the Federal Reserve’s decision to reduce the number of increases in US interest rates to two rather than four which has boosted both commodity backed and emerging market currencies.

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