The Sovereign Society’s managing director, Erika Nolan, has given some useful baics about what you need to know before you jump into foreign-exchange investing.

The US dollar showed further weakness today, as the New York Manufacturing index plunged to minus 8.7 in June — a bigger decrease than forecast.

The greenback was already under pressure as soaring eurozone inflation boosted expectations of an imminent rate hike by the European Central Bank.

As market uncertainty feeds into exchange rate volatility, currency expert Sean Hyman suggests two safe havens in The Offshore A-Letter…

Gold was higher from the far East to the mid-point of London trading on Wednesday, slumped from there into New York’s second hour, bottoming at $916, but then shot higher for the rest of the day including the Globex, and finished at $931.80/oz., up $12.80.

Don’t know the first thing about trading currencies? No problem. You can still invest outside of the falling dollar - even with just a normal stock brokerage account. Let’s look at some great ways you can get in on the foreign currency markets, and actually profit from the dropping dollar.