Sentences with phrase «year high against»

2011 marked a 20 - year high against the US Dollar, but that is all a distant memory now.

And the trend is continuing in 2015, with the dollar recently hitting an eleven year high against the Euro and a seven and a half year high against the Yen.1 This is especially good news for those of us who are looking to travel abroad this year.

The pound has hit a two - year high against the euro and a two - week high against the US dollar, as Scotland voted against independence.

The single currency has hit a two - year high against the U.S. dollar.

As a result, the single currency continued to make gains, and by the end of July had reached a two - and - a-half year high against the US dollar.

The data buoyed U.S. stocks and helped lift the dollar to a 5-1/2 - year high against a basket of currencies as traders brought forward bets on the timing of the first rate hike.

The won has appreciated to more than a seven - year high against the Japanese yen this month, while rising to a nine - year high versus the euro, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

The German index is still stuck in a clear downtrend as the European common currency it a new two and a half year high against the Dollar.

After hitting a 6 - year high against the U.S. dollar in 2017, it appears the euro bull run may be coming to an end, pulling back nearly 4 percent against its rival over the past three months

The euro has been on a steady rising path since mid 2017, reaching a more than three - year high against the dollar in February and capping gains for European stock markets.

It was around a six - year high against the yen of 109.06 and a three - year peak of 0.78 euros.

The dollar has eased off in the last couple of days since Trump complained about it being too strong, but, after rising half a cent on the back of Draghi's press conference, it's still close to a 14 - year high against the euro.

The common currency rose to a two - and - half year high against the dollar on doubts over the U.S. currency but also after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi gave two speeches last week with no indications about the bank's next steps for monetary policy.

Europe's common currency rose to two - and - half year highs against the greenback Monday.

Even though the dollar has raced to 14 - year highs against a basket of currencies in the wake of the Fed meeting, only a slim majority - 52 percent of poll participants who expressed a view - thought the euro / dollar exchange rate would break below parity in 2017.

The Euro has been hitting 2 - year highs against the dollar.

At the close of business on Tuesday, the dollar rose to fresh one - year highs against the euro.

Not exact matches

Prices on the London Metal Exchange soared by a third, lifting the metal to its highest in nearly seven years, after the United States imposed sanctions this month against billionaire Oleg Deripaska and his company Rusal, the world's No. 2 aluminium producer.

Elsewhere, the dollar held at a three - month high against a basket of currencies, after having received a boost from U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields holding near the key 3 percent level.

But Cohodes gave a detailed presentation of his case against Home Capital last year at a high - profile investor conference, and he'll engage with anyone who reaches out with questions.

It is the promise of «Abenomics» that has seen the yen shed about 15 percent of its value against the dollar since November and Japanese shares surge to their highest level in more than four years.

In its last assessment, S&P said that Portugal's outlook was stable, «balancing our expectation of further budgetary consolidation and likely receding banking sector risks over the next two years against the risks of a weakening external growth environment and vulnerabilities related to high private - and public - sector debt.»

The euro, which in the aftermath of January's meeting rose to a new three - year high, started the year surging against other currencies, including the U.S. dollar, as the region's economy improved and political risks dissipated.

Officials in London and Brussels are racing against a two - year deadline to make sure Britain has an orderly exit, but tensions are running high.

Their declining currencies against the dollar (8 - 9 percent over the past 12 months), falling stock market values since the beginning of the year and high (India) and rising (Brazil) bond yields are reflecting their funding difficulties.

The yen has fallen about 11 % against the U.S. dollar this year, and that's been great for exports, while inflation is the highest it's been in five years.

But a high - level meeting scheduled for Wednesday at this year's UN gathering is a testament to fast - rising concern over the rate at which bacteria are learning to evade science's last remaining tools against them.

SINGAPORE, May 3 - The dollar traded below a four - month high against a basket of currencies on Thursday, with the focus shifting to economic data after the Federal Reserve did little to alter market expectations for further interest rate rises this year.

The following year, Monaco filed suit against the State of Mississippi in the U.S. Supreme Court, but the high court refused to hear Monaco's claim on the grounds that the «Court has no jurisdiction of a suit brought by a foreign state against a state of the Union without her consent.»

Sterling jumped on the announcement of YouGov's poll, climbing to another year - to - date high against the dollar, approaching $ 1.50.

By running the risk of higher deficits, the Trump plan could damage the credibility of Republican lawmakers who spent years railing against the rising national debt under former President Barack Obama.

Thanks in part to his example, over the past few years, several high - profile CEOs have come out against the norm of constant busyness.

Before Comey tapped him to lead the Richmond office in 2014, he was section chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section, investigating some of the highest profile cases against government officials and civil rights violations in recent years.

With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.

Last year, men celebrated the event by donning dresses and high heels to hike up a mountain in Guangdong Province, and five female activists were arrested for planning a protest against sexual harassment.

And now that our careers are going, we're looking at maxing out two traditional 401Ks and two Roth IRAs this year, and we see the Roth IRA portion as a small hedge against rising future tax rates (or what I think is a bit more likely to happen — tax brackets that don't keep pace with inflation, so keep sucking in more and more people to higher brackets).

A woman I work with borrowed against her 401k to buy a ski - in, ski - out condo for around $ 150k during the recession, which she now rents out on a daily basis for a crazy high return, as in her gross rents paid for the entire purchase price after 2 years of ownership, and she's now paid back her 401k loan.

The dollar index against the world's major currencies is at a four month high with the interest rate gap set to widen between the dollar and euro - zone as the US Federal Reserve plans several more rate hikes this year.

For a year's policy premium, this rate was 27 % higher against the city's mean.

China's central bank on Friday guided the yuan higher against the dollar by the fastest pace this year.

Crude prices surged to five - year highs after President Trump vowed to retaliate against Syria for a Chemical Weapons attack and taunted Russia about their threat to shoot down U.S. missiles if they were used against Syria.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- The dollar rose to its highest in over four years against a basket of currencies on Thursday after the Federal Reserve's guidance on interest rates highlighted the diverging pathways between the United States and other rich nations.

Feelings run high, for example, around a key Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling last year, which found that the federal government discriminates against First Nations children by underfunding family services.

China's one - year sovereign bond yield has climbed 14 basis points since the devaluation, while the cost to insure the nation's debt against default jumped to a two - year high.

Relative to the five - year average, Korean credit default swaps, the cost of insuring against defaults, is 3 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) higher while the Korean Won is 3 % lower.

Earlier this year, the American people got a devastating look at what was really going on inside the SEC that prevented it from bringing fraud charges against higher ups at Goldman Sachs who were involved in the ABACUS deal.

Given the high level of discontent expressed on the say - on pay proposal last year, when 56.6 % of non-state shareholders voted against, securing support for the proposed remuneration policy may be a challenge.

Currency strategists gave weaker exchange rate forecasts for major emerging countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey in the monthly survey, pointing to a sixth straight year of dollar gains against most high - yielding currencies.

The dollar rose to the highs of the year against a currency basket on Tuesday as investors awaited a FED meeting expected to point to another possible rate hikes this year.

LONDON (AP)-- The pound jumped on Friday to reach its highest level against the dollar in nearly five years after the Bank of England's governor predicted an interest rate hike might come sooner than expected.