Dollar's Fall Tests Nerve of Asia's Central Bankers
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As the dollar has slumped this fall, many investors have started to worry that people in Asia who own U.S. stock will be tempted to pare their holdings.
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The U.S. dollar stumbled on Monday, setting multi-month lows against the yen and euro and trading around four-year lows against the Korean won and Singapore dollar, prompting investors to clip Asian share markets.
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The United States is set to turn a  blind eye to the sliding dollar and a deaf ear to protests  about its fall, but experts smell trouble for all in what looks  like an effective devaluation of the world's reserve currency.
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The dollar seesawed sharply against the  yen on Friday as the market struggled to digest comments by a  Chinese official that the time was ripe for China to move  gradually toward a more flexible exchange rate regime.
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The dollar fell in choppy trade on  Thursday as traders tried to sort out what a surprise interest  rate hike from China meant for currencies.
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The dollar was feeling the heat on Thursday as concerns about the U.S. trade and current account deficits hardened the market's view that the currency's downward spiral would continue.
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The dollar fell to a seven-month low versus the yen on Monday and hit a nine-year low against a basket of major currencies, resuming recent weakness due to concerns over the US ability to fund its current account gap.
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The steady decline of the U.S. dollar could set the stage for inflation and slowing global growth.
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Asian stocks edged lower on Tuesday  and the dollar hovered above a record low against a basket of  major currencies as investors held their fire ahead of a U.S.  Federal Reserve policy-setting meeting that is expected to cut  interest rates.
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Fears of further dollar weakness sent  shares in Asian exporters sharply lower on Monday, after a  meeting of the Group of 20 rich and developing nations said  nothing to arrest its fall.
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The dollar held near a record low  against the euro and a 4-1/2-year low versus the yen on Monday,  sending Asian shares sharply lower, after a meeting of rich and  developing nations said nothing to arrest its fall.
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BERLIN  - The world's top finance officials stopped well short of expressing serious concern about the plunging U.S. dollar at a weekend meeting, although they issued a call for "steps toward greater exchange-rate flexibility" in Asia's emerging economies.
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The dollar slumped to a record low on Monday after a meeting of the finance chiefs of rich nations ended without words of support for the currency, while Wall Street weakness prompted a broad sell off in Asian stocks.
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Asian stock markets were  slammed on Wednesday by the widening damage caused by the U.S.  subprime mortgage sector meltdown, with investors fearing more  negative surprises will emerge in the region.
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The dollar fell against the yen in Asian trading Tuesday as short-term focused Japanese and overseas players sold the dollar amid speculation that U.S. retail sales data might prove disappointing.
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Financial markets and economic policymakers around the globe all were focused last week on the shrinking value of the dollar. The greenback fell to its lowest level in years against both the yen and the euro
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Stocks in Asia resumed their decline on Monday, led by banks like Japan's Mizuho, while the dollar hovered near a 3-year low against the yen after a proposed U.S. stimulus package did little to soothe fears the world's top economy will tip into a recession.