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The main currencies have been steady so far today amid a backdrop of sputtering stock markets as market participants wait on upcoming central bank signals from today's publication of the FOMC minutes from the recent Fed meeting and from the upcoming gathering of central bank policymakers at the Jackson Hole Symposium. Read more
The Dollar was broadly lower in N.Y. trade on Tuesday, taking the DXY from 98.45 highs in early trade, to 98.13 lows into the close. Another dive in Treasury yields weighed on the Greenback, with market participants placing bets on a dovish set of FOMC minutes on Wednesday, and a just as dovish speech from Fed chair Powell at the Jackson Hole symposium on Friday. Read more
The Dollar has headed into the New York interbank open on a mixed footing, showing gains versus the Pound while changing hands at near net unchanged levels against the Euro and Canadian Dollar, and showing losses against the Yen and Australian Dollar. Read more
The Australian Dollar has traded firmer and, to a lesser extent, the New Zealand buck. The gains came despite Chinese stock markets sputtering, although other equity markets across the Asia-Pacific region performed better, continuing the recouperation from last week's acute phase of risk-off positioning. Read more
The Dollar was rangebound in N.Y. on Monday, leaving the DXY between 98.18 lows at the open, and 98.27 after the London close. There was no data to drive the market. Wall Street was higher on trade negotiation hopes, while Treasury yields edged higher as well. Read more
Moderate weakness in the Yen and the Pound has characterized early-week trading so far. The Yen nudged lower against the Dollar and Euro, tracking a rise in U.S. Treasury and Bund yields, which were accompanied by gains in Asian and European stock markets to complete a risk-back-on picture. Read more
The Dollar majors have been plying narrow ranges in early-week trading so far, with principal pairings and associated cross rates showing less than a 0.2% net movement heading into the London interbank open. EUR-USD settled in the upper 1.1100s. The pair was lifted on Friday from levels around 1.1170 by reports that Germany will shift to deficit spending should the country enter recession. Read more
The dollar headed mostly lower in N.Y. on Friday, dented by a softer consumer sentiment report, and news that Germany will shift to deficit spending should the country enter recession. The latter gave the euro a boost from two-week low of 1.10667, to 1.1106 highs. Read more
EUR-USD has declined for a fifth consecutive day, earlier pegging a two-week low at 1.1074. A stop-loss and long-covering decline in EUR-GBP, which has fallen by nearly 1%, has driven a broader underperformance in the Euro. EUR-USD's ebb today has extended the fall the pairing saw following yesterday's firmer than expected U.S. Read more
Narrow ranges have been prevailing amid a restive mood in global markets. Hopes for more central bank stimulus have been winning out in equity markets, for now, though this is juxtaposed by fears that a number of major economies are simultaneously heading for recession, with a number of developing-world economies with high dollar debt levels are particularly exposed to the shifting financial cycle. Read more
