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Currency trading rises from Tokyo to New York on policy bumps

London

CURRENCY trading rose in the six months till April across major global centres, from Tokyo to London to New York, as investors grappled with monetary-policy whiplash, surveys from central banks showed.

In the UK, the world's largest foreign-exchange market, average daily volume rose 5 per cent from October to US$2.21 trillion, led by a 27 per cent jump in dollar-yen transactions, according to the Bank of England's Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee. The volume dropped 9 per cent from...

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