Asia Value Investor

Foreign exchange or forex (FX) is the largest financial market in the world. However, it is relatively unfamiliar to retail traders. FX was primarily the domain of large financial institutions, multinational corporations and secretive hedge funds so far. However, if you search the Internet, you will know that individual investors are now hungry for information [...]

Basically the stock market tends to decline on news of rate increases.
When a country raises the interest rate for its currency, we would expect that currency to gain in value relative to other currencies. This is because an increase in a currency’s interest rate makes it more valuable to hold as an investment, due to [...]