Tuesday, 18th June 2013 | Trading in the foreign exchange market today was dominated by selling of the currencies but at higher rates than on Monday except for the Canadian dollar which fell by 8 cents. The US dollar cost 45 cents more as the selling rate slipped to $101.61 while the buying rate moved up by 58 cents to $100.87. The pound was sold at 48 cents more than on Monday as it took $159.85 top buy a pound. Authorised dealers bought the pound for 89 cents less than yesterday.
A total of US$31.8 million was purchased and US$69.6 million was sold on the day the BOJ two CDS closed. On the closing date of the last two BOJ CDs there were similar levels of trades.
