US dollar drops on week

The US dollar was down over the week after the Federal reserve cut interest rates by 0.5 percent earlier in the week, falling 1.5 percent to $1.4120 in relation to the euro on Friday, a new record low.

The dollar dropped 0.6 percent during the week to $2.0185 versus the pound, was down 1.3 percent to SFr1.1730 against the Swiss franc, and plummeted 3.5 percent to C$0.9939 versus the Canadian dollar.

Despite its weakness, however, the greenback added 0.1 percent against the yen, to ¥115.40.

The Japanese yen was weaker over the week as well, as recovering equities markets made investors more comfortable with risk again and they began to sell the currency to finance carry trades.

While the yen dropped 0.7 percent to ¥233.15 against sterling, it was 1.5 percent lower to ¥162.60 versus the euro, fell 3 percent to ¥99.90 in relation to the Australian dollar and was down 4.6 percent to ¥85.87 against the New Zealand dollar.

Sterling was down to £0.7020, the lowest it has been against the euro in over two and a half years before it recovered to trade at £0.6975 for a drop against the shared currency of 0.8 percent on the week.

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