AP – About 8 million Iraqis — nearly a third of the population — need immediate emergency aid because of the humanitarian crisis caused by the war, relief agencies said Monday.

The euro shook off the dollar’s gains from late last week, edging higher against the American currency in European trading Monday, but remained below US$1.37.

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(RTTNews) – The Australian dollar trended higher against the Canadian currency in early Asian deals on Monday, but the gains are being reversed, as of now.

The New Zealand dollar had a hairy morning’s trading but settled down in the afternoon, demonstrating some composure in the wake of white knuckle ride down last week.

(RTTNews) – Mixed trading is being witnessed among the markets open for trading in the Asian region on Monday morning.

(RTTNews) – The Sunday late night deals in New York saw the USD/JPY pair gaining slightly, and was trading at 118.40 at 10:32 PM ET. After a little pause, amid the release of a strong Japanese industrial production data, the greenback started rising slightly against its Japanese counterpart but the momentum lacked the strength to sustain.

July 29 (Bloomberg) — New Zealand Finance Minister Michael Cullen’s office sought legal advice to prevent the publication of figures on the central bank’s currency intervention capacity mistakenly released to the Sunday Star-Times newspaper.

AFP – Iraqi officials stepped up security measures on Sunday ahead of the 2007 Asia Cup final match between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, amid fears that insurgents will attack crowds of fans.

AFP – US-led forces killed eight alleged Al-Qaeda militants and captured another 22 suspects in raids across central Iraq on Sunday, the military said.