Sunday, September 23, 2012

Foreign Exchange Statistics

The most traded currencies by percentage of daily share as of April 2010 are:

1. United States dollar = 84.9%
2. Euro = 39.1%
3. Japanese yen = 19.0%
4. Pound Sterling = 12.9%
5. Australian dollar = 7.6%
6. Swiss franc = 6.4%
7. Canadian dollar = 5.3%
8. Hong Kong dollar = 2.4%
9. Swedish Krona =2.2%
10. New Zealand = 1.6%

Bank for International Settlements Foreign Exchange Webpage:
http://www.bis.org/publ/rpfxf10t.htm


And below we have the Top 10 currency traders as a percent of overall volume, May 2012

Rank / Name / Market Share
1 Deutsche Bank 14.57%
2 Citi 12.26%
3 Barclays Investment Bank 10.95%
4 UBS AG 10.48%
5 HSBC 6.72%
6 JPMorgan 6.6%
7 Royal Bank of Scotland 5.86%
8 Credit Suisse 4.68%
9 Morgan Stanley 3.52%
10 Goldman Sachs 3.12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market


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1 comment:

  1. Thank you for sharing such information like this. I really appreciate it since I love currency and foreign exchange topic. Hope that one day you could focus on iraqi dinars. More post in the near future please.

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