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May 22, 2008

Oil Prices, US Dollar and Forex Trading Strategy

How will rising oil prices affect the dollar in currency trading?
One of the questions that many have right now is how oil prices should affect US dollar forex trading strategy. While oil prices and the dollar in currency trading normally move inversely to each other, there are a couple of ideas of how this might affect things.

Reuters reports on the different ideas regarding the oil prices and the US dollar in forex trading:

"People are in two minds about what oil prices will do for the dollar," said Chris Turner, head of FX strategy at ING.

"It can lead to more diversification from central banks and lead them to adjust their reserves out of dollars. But stagflation...can also turn the focus of the Fed to deprioritise growth and focus on inflation, increasing the prospects of higher rates and a dollar supportive yield curve."

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