Swedish krona and Swiss franc charter new ground with negative rates; Canadian dollar hit by oil
Posted on June 10, 2015 at 2:25 pm GMTDeflation fears pushes Swedish krona to multi-year lows The Swedish krona has been one of the worst performing currencies in the developed world, declining over 12% during the past year. It has been falling against the euro since August 2012 and has depreciated rapidly against the dollar since March 2014, hitting a lot of 8.88 kronor per dollar, though since recovering slightly to around 8.3. Low inflation expectations has been the main driver of the krona’s weakness as Sweden’s [..]