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The euro steadied in early Asian trade on Wednesday. more...

Chris Walker, FX strategist at Barclays, discusses how a "high degree of uncertainty" around the Bank of England's monetary policy could have an effect on sterling. more...

Shane Oliver, head of investment Strategy and Chief Economist at AMP Capital Investors, expects China to start easing its monetary policy by the end of this year. more...

China should keep tightening* monetary policy to fight inflation pressures even as the pace of global growth shows signs of faltering, the International Monetary Fund's China mission chief said on Thursday. more...

The Bank of Japan is expected to ease monetary policy at a rate review on Thursday that was cut short to one day after Tokyo intervened in the currency market to weaken the yen, a source familiar with the central bank's thinking said. more...

Japan primed financial markets on Tuesday for currency intervention after the yen tested record highs overnight, signalling it may try to tame the unit with a combination of yen-selling and monetary easing. more...

We need to add productive capacity in the U.S. economy. Keeping a close eye on equities, Treasurys and the currency markets, as QE2 ends today, with Bob Gelfond, MQS Asset Management CEO. more...

Only weeks ago, quantitative easing, the emergency policy of pumping money into the financial system to revive the economy, was considered firmly over. Now, amid a stream of gloomy data that has raised renewed fears of a double-dip recession in the UK, it could soon be back on the agenda...