International Forex Inforamtion

The dollar sold off sharply in the Tuesday session, tumbling to its lowest level against the Aussie since August 2008 at 0.8917 and slumping versus the Canadian dollar to its lowest level since September 2008 at 1.0549. Commodities climbed higher, with spot gold touching a fresh record high beyond the $1,040 per ounce level and crude oil edging up past the $72 per barrel level. The catalyst for part of the move was unsubstantiated rumors that the Mid East oil producing nations would soon abandon the US dollar as the pricing currency for oil.

The US economic calendar is light this week, with the reports due out toward the latter half of the week including weekly jobless claims, wholesale sales, wholesale inventories and the August trade deficit.