WORLD FOREX INFORMATION

The beleaguered dollar found no reprieve in the Wednesday session, extending its losses to fresh 14-month lows against the euro and Australian dollar to 1.4934 and 0.9156, respectively. A shift to riskier assets was triggered by a stronger than expected earnings report from JP Morgan Chase, prompting advances in the US equity bourses with the Dow Jones, Nasdaq and S&P 500 all gaining by more than 1.2% by afternoon trading. The Dow Jones edged higher toward the psychologically key 10,000-level, briefly breaching above it on an intra-day basis for the first time in a year.