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Thailand's baht appreciated extending a rebound from last month's three-year low to 4 percent, as U.S. lawmakers' failure to resolve a budget issue decreased demand for the dollar. Thailand also sees an increase in exports shipments of 3.9 percent in August, allowing the country to see a current-account surplus of $1.3 billion for the month. This shows how currencies can appreciate as an effect of another country's depreciation. Here, we US dollar depreciating due to less demand for it. Moreover, Thai baht also increases, supported by a current-account surplus.

Asian markets have been hit with news of a liquidity squeeze in China's markets, but the South Korean won has hit a two year high. The country's current account surplus and the popularity of its bonds is strengthening the currency. However, because Korea is a heavily dependent export country, the government is intervening to stymie the growth of the won. In fact, the central bank has bought 2 billion dollars worth of the won to reduce the growth.

Thai Baht has depreciated 0.6 percent to 31.305 per dollar in the previous weeks. This was the baht's weakest week in a month. This has been due to the recent political protests against the amnesty bill. Foreigners have been cutting holdings of the nation's assets in fear of instability. This shows how a demand for a currency can decrease due several factors, including political unrests. As foreigners fear that the nation future in terms of its economic performance is not stable, the demand for Thai baht decreased. People are more reluctant to invest as they fear the political unrests could lead to a fall in value for the assets.

The article talks about Japan's monetary problem in bond markets, which has threatened to undermine the country's battle to end deflation and stimulate growth in the giant economy. This causes the banks to expand the monetary base. However, Japan is still in debt and now it has more money struggles. Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is looking for a way to combat falling price and he declares that he will even double Japan's monetary base. But again, the debts of Japan is "twice as much as the size of the country", thus Japan is vulnerable to rising borrowing costs. Fortunately, the government uses pushing government spending, boosting asset prices by raising asset price inflation expectation, and increasing the country's GDP as solutions; and they do work.

The latest employment figures show hiring has been stronger in both 2012 and 2011 than initially believed, based on tax returns, not initially available to the government. Yet the pace of job growth decreased in January as the number of jobs added to the economy last month fell short of the 170,000 allowing the unemployment rate to increase from 7.9% to 7.8%. The pace of hiring in January suggests that businesses still remain somewhat cautious about taking on new employees.At the current pace of job growth, it is that that it will take several years to drive down unemployment back to pre-recession levels of below 5%. Also, the rise in the unemployment means the Federal Reserve is unlikely to stop its massive bond-buying program anytime soon. The bank has said it will keep interest rates at an ultra-low level until the jobless rate falls to 6.5%. However, hiring trends were somewhat better in 2012 and 2011 than the government's prior analysis indicated. The economy added 335,000 more jobs in 2012 than initially reported, with The largest amount of extra jobs showing up in the last three months of the year.

UK western asset manager is first group outside Hong Kong to be granted a licence to invest directly in the domestic equity and bond markets

This article talks about the recent shutdown of the US government and its effect on the American currency. The author of the article questions whether the US dollar will save its supremacy and will stay an international currency as it used to be. The government shutdown has seriously affected the value of the US dollar. Therefore, affecting everybody who has held their money in that currency, "China, the largest foreign owner of US treasury bonds, would feel much of the pain." This serves as an example of the factors that affect the currency and what are the consequences of it.