Tuesday, 28th May 2013 | The decline in the level of trading was clearly not a sign of things to come. At least that is what Tuesday’s data in the foreign currency market is saying.
Trading picked up markedly from yesterday’s poor showing with US$42 million bought for all currencies and selling of US$37.1 million. Rates inched up a bit today with the US dollar purchased for 80 cents more and sold 2 cents more than on Monday. In the case of the Canadian dollar it was 59 cents more on the buy side and $1.32 on the selling side while the Pound Sterling was fetching 53 cents more on the buy and just 19 cents more on the sell side than on Monday.
The amount of US dollar sold was over US$4 million more than that purchased, while the Canadian sold Can$1.66 million compared to only Can$900,000 bought. Sterling was heavily in favour of buying as nearly a million pounds less was sold than bought.
The highs and lowest rates saw marked moves in Canadian on the buy side climbing $1.17 for the highest rates and down $12.09 on the lowest rate sold. The pound was sold for $1.41 less at the lowest rate.