As is the case with every news item, there is more than one side to the story.

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One item of good news in a week buffeted by the Dow Jones' death-spiral, reports of the domestic automakers' incipient demise and ever-more-assertive testing by various adversaries of the not-yet-inaugurated "young President" Obama: Thomas Fingar is leaving the building.

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BBC's programming in one instance, to a news item about King Fahd being admitted to hospital.

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Trump, who has a knack for inserting himself in seemingly any news item, is happily going along with this one.

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They need only be concerned with whether they can be make a profit in one direction or the other on a news item or event, be it an earnings report, an economic report, or just the remarks of a prominent person in an interview or speech.

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One of the key characteristics of FX is the inherrent volatility, as any news item, political or economic can have an impact on at least 2 currencies, i.e. the currency pair, but also on the cross relationships.

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