Dollars drop in Asia double-edged sword
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Thai frozen food exporters are calling for the government to stop the baht's surge and South Korean automakers are seeing their earnings shrink.
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Asian stock markets tumbled on Monday, with exporters hit hard as the dollar slumped to a 15-year low against a basket of major currencies on concerns the U.S. economy may be heading into a recession.
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The dollar took a nose-dive on  Wednesday after a much wider-than-expected November U.S. trade  deficit fueled a sell-off in the currency.
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Shares in Asia fell on Monday, with Japan down around 2.5 percent and Hong Kong down more than 3 percent, as concerns over the health of the U.S. economy returned.
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SHANGHAI, JAN. 22 -- Stocks across Asia took precipitous falls Tuesday for the second day in a row, reflecting fears that a weak U.S. economy could derail growth worldwide.
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The dollar fell against the euro and yen after a gauge of business in the Chicago area, a center of US manufacturing, declined more than economists predicted.
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Asian stocks edged lower on Wednesday  as profit taking set in after two days of gains and the dollar  firmed ahead of comments from Fed chief Alan Greenspan that are  expected to cement the case for further U.S. rate rises.
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Asian stocks slumped to a two-week low on Monday, extending a weak start to 2008, while the dollar hovered near multi-week lows after weak U.S. jobs data heightened fears of recession in the region's top export market.
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The dollar slipped to a fresh record  low against the euro and a multi-month trough against the yen  on concerns about U.S. budget and current account deficits,  weighing on Asian stocks, and sending gold to 16-year highs.
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Have Asia's central banks lulled  Americans into a false sense of security?
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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.
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Most markets in Asia fell by between 2 and 3 percent today as Wall Street was steady after yesterdayâs losses.
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China&#39;s hike in interest rates was a double-edged sword for many investors and economists. At one level, it suggested that Chinese growth is
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The pound and the Australian dollar continued to waver as they approached key levels against the US dollar of 2 dollars and 0.8 dollar respectively.
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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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The euro fell on Tuesday after more  European officials called for Asian economies, particularly  China, to take on a bigger share of the dollar's weakness and  let their currencies rise.
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The dollar continued its decline in global currency markets Thursday, intensifying worries among some economists that mounting U.S. budget and trade deficits could send the U.S. currency into a tailspin.