Sentences with phrase «year low against»

At the beginning of 2015, it raised the price of the OnePlus One by 50 euros ($ 55) when the euro hit a nine - year low against the dollar.

The British pound plunged more than 10 percent the day after the vote, flirting with a 31 - year low against the dollar.

«The fall in the euro has definitely had an effect,» she added as the euro fell further towards a 12 - year low against the dollar.

On the first day of 2017, the Euro fell to a 14 - year low against the dollar.

Editor's note: The below is a fictional letter by an imagined banker on how the foreign exchange market looks from London's financial district at the end of a week when the pound slumped to a 31 - year low against the dollar, rounded off by a humiliating «flash crash» of 6 % in overnight trading on Friday.

The British pound hit a new seven - year low against the dollar after Bank of England Governor Mark Carney on Tuesday ruled out an interest rate rise any time soon.

In response to the vote, the British pound had collapsed to a 31 - year low against the US dollar, falling below $ 1.35, while stock futures were collapsing with US futures off more than 3.5 % while London's FTSE 100 down almost 9 %.

But the figures are further illustration of how even an ultra-loose monetary policy from the European Central Bank, which has driven the euro to a 12 - year low against the dollar this year, still hasn't created a self - sustaining recovery in the region.

One thought here is the ongoing situation with Chinese outflows, with data overnight showing their FX reserves dropping the most in 10 months... as such we see the Yuan at 8 year lows against the Dollar.

But South Korea has cut interest rates to record lows, bringing the won back down to five - year lows against the U.S. dollar and boosting exports.

(Cryptos are a popular way for mainland investors to diversify away from a volatile yuan, which fell to more than eight - year lows against the dollar in 2016.)

Not exact matches

On Friday, the dollar index was up 4 % from its lows of the year hit on February 16, as traders found it increasingly expensive to bet against the dollar's decline.

As a result, the value of the Russian currency, the ruble, has deteriorated by 30 % against the dollar so far this year, routinely hitting new record lows along the way.

Weighed against unemployment, which has dropped to a 16 - year low at 4.1 percent, that weakness has puzzled economists and made some policy makers declare the Fed should hold off on additional rate increases until prices respond more briskly.

They're paying the lowest premium in nearly three years to protect against a 10 % decline in Nvidia's stock over the next three months, relative to bets on a 10 % increase, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The euro hit a new 9 - year low of $ 1.1894 against the dollar in response.

In Russia, the RTS index was down 3.7 % by lunchtime in Moscow, close to a seven - year low, as the ruble hit a new low against the dollar.

The euro fell to its lowest level against the dollar in nine years Monday, driven by fears of political turmoil in Greece and hopes for more monetary stimulus from the European Central Bank.

It's also worth noting that while USCIS says it saw a drop in the total number of H - 1B applications this year, it has also warned against filing multiple petitions for a single worker, which could explain the lower number.

The ringgit has lost a quarter of its value against the U.S. dollar this year and fallen to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis 17 years ago.

The euro has already lost nearly 6 % against the dollar since Draghi's October press conference, and is already trading close to the 12 - year low it posted back in March.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's hryvnia has dropped nearly 80 percent against the greenback this year, to trade at 15,7085 per $ 1 on Monday, off last month's all - time low of 15,8817, weighed by tensions between government forces and rebels in the country's eastern regions.

Against this backdrop of delayed rebalancing, we now see oil prices fluctuating around current levels, in a lower range than we had expected earlier this year.

As I said, the greenback's been on the decline for most of the year so far, but it slumped to a 13 - month low against the euro last week following European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi's remark that «monetary accommodation» would continue in the European Union (EU) until at least the end of the year.

(CNN)-- Changes to a decades - old federal program that provides birth control and other reproductive health care services to millions of low - income people each year prompted lawsuits that were filed against the Trump administration Wednesday.

The last time the G - 20 issued such a firm statement against currency wars Japan was in the spotlight as its campaign of monetary stimulus pushed the yen to its lowest level against the dollar in about five years.

The lira, one of the worst - performing emerging market currencies this year, weakened to a record low of 4.2487 against the dollar, from Wednesday's close of 4.1785.

The euro, which had already been near its lowest level in 11 years on expectations of action by the central bank, weakened further against the dollar, falling about 1 percent to around $ 1.14, a move that could help European exporters.

The uneven regional trends are playing out against the backdrop of the lowest mortgage rates of the year.

«The leg - up in the US 10 - year yield since April 18 has lifted the US dollar and caused most of the major - economy exchange rates to decline, and test the lower - end of their recent ranges against the US dollar,» he noted.

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.

The pound also fell to a fresh 31 - year - low against the dollar early Tuesday.

The Australian Dollar pushed below critical support of 75 cents, to near a one - year low of $ 0.7472 against a rising US Dollar.

And now there's a new challenge: Canada's inflation is rising at the fastest pace in seven years, while at the same time, the jobless rate is at the lowest in four decades and the expansion is running up against capacity.

This prolonged a surge in global financial markets over the last two years, occurring against a backdrop of low growth and unusually accommodative monetary policies in advanced economies.

Against a backdrop of deflation around the world, China's producer price index and purchase price index have been dropping for several years, and the latter is lower than the producer price index, further indicating that China shouldered the external deflationary pressure.

While we don't expect to grow same - restaurant guest counts versus last year since we are up against the very significant increase we achieved last year, we do expect this promotion to be more profitable for guests this year because of lower seafood costs.

Let's take a look at some of the key fundamentals that have kept gold prices on a tight leash during the last few years against the backdrop of a sharp correction in the equities markets, rising inflation, geopolitical unrest and the likely end of an era of low interest rates.

BHP Billiton VP Huw McKay explains that, despite recent weakness, owing to slowing demand, and against most predictions, to date, the price of the steelmaking raw material is still up 31 %, having retreated from a surge of 52 %, after near - decade lows, in December last year.

The overall picture is one in which both growth and inflation will remain subdued against the backdrop of very low money and credit growth during the past few years.

In the final three months of last year the US dollar declined by 8 per cent against the euro and 7 per cent against the yen, to be around its lowest level in the past decade.

The precious metal is currently trading around a 10 - month low against the US dollar in an environment where several US rate hikes are expected next year.

The single currency dropped 1.1 % against the dollar Thursday after data showed that inflation in the euro zone fell to a near four - year low in October.

This year Goldman is packaging hybrid FX derivatives that allow clients to hedge against a risk of dollar - denominated interest rates remaining low.

«Even though the economy will be slowing, we still think the unemployment rate is likely to fall further next year — and that means we're going to be pushing up against the lowest unemployment rates in decades in this country,» Porter added.

No confirmation from the ECB itself yet, but the euro has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar in more than 11 years.

The Mexican peso continued to rebound from its all - time low against the US dollar of around 22 pesos, reached soon after the start of this year.

The lackluster employment report, coupled with the attack against Syria, helped push US 10 - year Treasury notes to 2.28 %, their lowest intraday yield of 2017, on Friday morning.

The euro plunged from near two - year highs to a six - week low against the dollar in early November, after weak inflation figures stoked fears about demand in the 17 - member economy, according to Nawaz Ali, UK market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions.

An appeals court in Sudan ruled that a lower court's judgment against the 27 - year - old was faulty, her lawyer, Mohaned Mustafa El - Nour, said Monday.