{"id":18740,"date":"2011-01-27T07:28:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T12:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=18740"},"modified":"2011-01-27T07:28:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T12:28:46","slug":"us-dollar-declines-on-wednesday-in-reaction-to-decision-of-federal-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/01\/27\/us-dollar-declines-on-wednesday-in-reaction-to-decision-of-federal-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"US dollar declines on Wednesday in reaction to Decision of Federal Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US dollar declined versus the euro on Wednesday as the US Federal  Reserve decided to keep its low interest and maintains their bond  purchasing program. According to the Federal Reserve US economic growth  has been sluggish for which the decision of keeping low interests rates  were taken.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar index DXY which measure the greenback\u2019s performance versus  its major six rivals declined to 77.776 as compared to 77.973on  Tuesday\u2019s late trading session.<\/p>\n<p>The Euro advanced to 1.3703 against the US dollar as compared to  $1.3682 on Tuesday. Against the Japanese Yen the US dollar traded at  82.26 as compared to 82.23 on Tuesday\u2019s late trading session.<\/p>\n<p>Global Head of Currency Marc Chandler form Brown Brothers Harriman  commented, \u201cThe continuation of Treasury purchases, coupled with the  modification of the labor market assessment triggered a quick push lower  on the dollar.<\/p>\n<p>The greenback did moved up for a brief movement in start of US  trading session on Wednesday as US homes sales increased more than  expected. But later on selling pressure increased in the US dollar on  decrease of treasury yield as President Obama has proposed to stop  domestic discretionary spending.<\/p>\n<p>The British Pound increased by 0.8 percent to 1.5912 versus the US  dollar as per latest Bank of England\u2019s meeting six members voted for  unchanged monetary policy. Two of the members voted to increase the bank  rate by 25 basis points while Adam Posen proposed to increase the asset  purchase program by 50 billion pounds to 250 billion pounds.<\/p>\n<p>According to experts Pound Sterling trading is more like a roller coaster and high volatile changes could be expected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Daily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyforextrade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">forex trading news<\/a> written by Rehan from DailyForexTrade.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US dollar declined versus the euro on Wednesday as the US Federal Reserve decided to keep its low interest and maintains their bond purchasing program. According to the Federal Reserve US economic growth has been sluggish for which the decision of keeping low interests rates were taken. The dollar index DXY which measure the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/01\/27\/us-dollar-declines-on-wednesday-in-reaction-to-decision-of-federal-reserve\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US dollar declines on Wednesday in reaction to Decision of Federal Reserve&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}