| Foreign-exchange volumes in the U.S., U.K. and Australia fell in April from a year earlier, according to reports from the world’s biggest central banks, amid subdued price swings and a probe into trading activity. Average daily currency turnover in North America was $811.1 billion, a 20 percent drop from a record $1 trillion in April 2013 and a 0.6 percent decline from October, the Federal Reserve-sponsored Foreign Exchange Committee said in a statement on its website, citing a twice-yearly survey.
In the U.K., April’s $2.4 trillion in turnover was 6 percent below the record high of $2.6 trillion a year earlier, the Bank of England’s Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee said. Daily U.K. trading rose 7 percent from October...............................................Full Article: Source
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