During the outage, London-based traders reported major difficulties in trading Wednesday, particularly in currencies like the Australian dollar, the New Zealand dollar, the Canadian dollar, the pound and the Nordic currencies, where Reuters dominates bank-to-bank flows.

"This is causing bottlenecks," said a trader at the time, who didn't wish to be named. "Because Reuters is down, the traders can't see the flows so are unwilling to quote, again causing bottlenecks, and probably adding to the short-squeeze seen in many pairings," he added.
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The last time that Thomson Reuters' currency trading systems suffered a major outage was in March 2011, when trading in certain currency pairs was disrupted for four hours during the European morning.
That saw many traders switch to its main rival ICAP PLC-owned EBS, which at the time reported a pickup in its Commonwealth and Nordic pairs as well as emerging markets.

Thomson Reuters operates one of two key dealing systems that banks use to trade with each other. Trading volumes handled by its systems averaged over $176 billion a day in September, the company's data show.

Thomson Reuters Trading Volumes Point To Forex Boom

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Trading volumes in currency markets seem to have boomed during September, as Thomson Reuters Corp. (TRI) reported its second-businest month ever across its range of dealing systems.

Volumes averaged more than $176 billion a day in September--the second-highest ever quantity --after an average of $166 billion a day in August. September's tally was surpassed only in May 2010, the company said.

The new volumes represent 32% growth compared with September 2010, showing that the foreign exchange market continues to grow rapidly.

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LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The currency dealing system owned by Thomson Reuters Corp. (TRI.T) has suffered an outage Wednesday, according to traders.
Two traders said that the key interbank trading system went down shortly after 0830 GMT. By 0842 GMT, it was still down.
Thomson Reuters could not immediately be reached for comment.

October 12, 2011 05:00 ET (09:00 GMT)
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cranberries18 schrieb:

@ goso

Am liquidesten ist der eur/usd, soweit ich was, was kommt dann? nur um "etwa" ein Gefühl zu haben? finde da auch im Bloomberg nix ordentliches.

NEW YORK(Dow Jones)--An indicator showing how expensive it is to swap euros into increasingly scarce dollars is wider Thursday morning.
The three-month cross currency basis swap is at minus 104.5 basis points, from a close of minus 95 basis points.
"In addition to record lows in yields we are again seeing euro zone funding rates move to March 2009 highs due to concerns of growth and the resulting potential impact on interbank lending," says Adrian Miller, senior vice president of fixed income strategy at Miller Tabak Roberts Securities in New York.
The swap rate was minus 76.5 basis points on Thursday, after five central banks announced a coordinated dollar funding plan. The effects of that announcement appear to have worn off as worries about Greece's debt return.
"With Greece's situation looking increasing like a restructuring play ...coupled with troubling global growth making it increasing difficult for weak southern EU members to work their way out from under their debt loads," the stress is likely to grow, Miller said.
Another indicator of interbank lending stress, the Euribor-overnight index swap spread has also widened to a mid-March 2009 highs, he said.

September 22, 2011 08:15 ET (12:15 GMT)
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trash schrieb:

Ein Bild, das man auch nicht so häufig sieht. Eine Art geordnete Schwächung/Stärkung. Intervenieren jetzt die Nationalbanken der Rohstoffländer auch so wie die SNB?

LONDON (Dow Jones)
-- As new safe haven, Norway already threatening rate cuts
-- Slower global growth will put exporters under pressure
-- Other countries will want to be more competitive now

--The Swiss National Bank may have unleashed the dogs of war.
As the global economic recovery continues to falter and exporters around the world find life increasingly difficult, more central banks will come under pressure to manage their currencies more carefully.
In other words, they must ensure their currencies remain competitive as the battle in export markets intensifies.
This is just what the SNB has done.
Its decision to cap the franc's rise against the euro has certainly pleased Swiss industrialists, who for months have been grumbling that safe-haven flows into their currency was damaging the Swiss economy.
The trouble is, many other economies are in a similar boat.
As U.S. Treasury officials have been keen to point out, Switzerland is a special case given its safe-haven status which distorts the impact of monetary policy on its currency.
But Norway, which has already found its currency strengthening as an alternative safe haven to the franc, has warned that it will cut its interest rates if it needs to protect its economy.
Sweden, which is also likely to find its krona in the firing line, could well follow suit.
This is all taking place against a backdrop of easing monetary policy in most major economies, including the U.S., the euro zone, the U.K. and Japan.
In fact, there is continued talk that Japan will also have to intervene to stop the yen from rising, given that is suffers from a safe-haven status like the franc.
However, there are a myriad of other countries that are likely to find their currencies rising as investor interest in most major currencies continues to fall.
They too will find their exports under pressure, especially if major engines of the global growth such as China continue to manage a slowing of their economies.
There is certainly little sign of an early global recovery with data this week showing Japanese machinery orders plummeting again, the latest Beige Book from the Fed suggesting U.S. growth is nearly at a standstill and that instead of stabilizing as hoped, the rate of unemployment in Australia has jumped higher.
With Switzerland already having taken matters in its own hands, without any apparent consultation with its trading partners, expect other countries to do likewise.
Even Canada, one of the least likely countries to take maverick action, this week signaled that monetary tightening will be put on hold to protect the country's growth.
Brazil, which as long warned of currency wars and has been busy over the last year trying to use capital controls to curb the real's rally, could be among first, along with Chile and Colombia, to start threatening rate cuts.
And on the other side of the world, Marc Ostwald of Monument Securities, identifies the Philippines, South Korea and Indonesia as all prime candidates to start adjusting policy in what could become an all-out currency war to protect exports.

September 09, 2011 01:45 ET (05:45 GMT)
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