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Weekly Currency Roundup
Local FX Market
Dollar rose slightly in the beginning of the week due to higher demand for USD for government loan payment. But the greenback then eased and ended stable as higher supply of US dollar through remittances offset the demand.
Money Market:
Bangladesh Bank borrowed BDT 5,261 million by the treasury bill auction held on Sunday, compared with BDT 5,108 million in the previous week's bid. The weighted average yield of 28-D T-bill was further down by 13 bps from the previous rate to 4.95 per cent. The yield 5-Y t-bills also continued to drop by 25 bps to 8.60 per cent.
The call money rate was a little volatile this week. In the beginning the week, the rate was 5.50-6.00 per cent. Then it rose as high as 7.00 per cent before coming down to 5.00-6.00 per cent at the end.
International FX Market
In the beginning of the week, the dollar reached one-week high against the euro and held above recent three-year lows against the Japanese yen, due to a strong rise in US payrolls which was quite unexpected. This spurred hopes of a stronger economic recovery in USA. Dollar came under pressure briefly in Asian trading on news that China's Central Bank was considering revaluing the yun by 30 per cent over the next five years.
In the middle of the week, the dollar fell within a cent of all-time lows against the euro on the growing belief that it would have to
weaken to narrow the US current account deficit and that a fall had official sanction. Comments from European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg this week, that a dollar fall was "unavoidable", had encouraged the view that U.S. and Euro zone policy makers would take a hands-off approach to an orderly decline in the dollar. The dollar hit its lowest levels since midJune against the Swiss franc, while the greenback also teetered at three-year lows against the yen for the second day in a row. It was also at its lowest for around six years against the Australian dollar and seven years versus the Canadian dollar. Against a basket of currencies, it was at its weakest since January 1997. Traders were also nervously awaiting US Treasury Secretary John Snow's appearance at a Senate hearing on foreign exchange policies next week, and a summit meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Bangkok later this month.
Later in the week, US dollar remained at three-years low against the yen and 3-1/2 month lows versus the euro on view that the US and European authorities would let it weaken to correct a ballooning US current account deficit. Sterling however hovered below recent 3-month highs against the dollar.
At 1600 hours on Thursday, euro was at 1.1816/22, GBP at 1.6652/54 and yen at 109.10/12 against dollar.
-- Standard Chartered Bank