Global Forex Flows Surge
good news!
Francesc
Global Forex Flows Surge
Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss, NiaWilliams and Tim McLaughlin at Reuters
Monday, February 25, 2013
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After several lackluster years, the US$5 trillion (HK$38.9 trillion) foreign exchange market has bolted back to life with institutional investors leading the charge and banks standing to gain from the activity.
Currency volumes spiked in January and have stayed robust so far, thanks to unexpectedly strong and persistent rallies in the euro and weakness in the yen, demand from institutional clients, and increased flows in world equity markets.
A strong mergers and acquisitions sector has also boosted turnover in the world's largest financial market, as often large volumes of currencies need to be traded for cross-border transactions.
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Comment by Peter jcp on February 25, 2013 at 11:04am -
That's good news for us retail forex traders. January was a surprise in terms of price movements and it would be great if that volume can be maintained throughout the year. Let's hope 2013 is a return to how the markets were prior to 2008/9 ;-)
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