Currency movements are often explained by interest rate differentials on government bonds, but it turns out that the reserve rebalancing decisions of largely anonymous and secretive central banks and sovereign wealth fund managers are playing an equal or perhaps greater role. Look at what happened to the euro, which has finally begun to decline following the European Central Bank's announcement in September that it will start buying asset-backed securities and may launch genuine quantitative easing, through purchases of government bonds.
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