The Dollar was under some pressure early in the session on Wednesday, taking the DXY to one-month lows of 95.78. The USD’s weakness was again attributed to the risk-on backdrop, which saw stocks and yields head higher, prompting the unwinding of safe-haven long USD positions. The surge in risk-taking came following news that Moderna’s experimental […]
The Dollar turned mostly lower through the N.Y. morning session on Thursday, though recovered in afternoon trade. The DXY dropped from 96.18 to 95.90 lows, then bounced to intra day highs of 96.32. Incoming U.S. data was mixed, seeing strong retail sales, though a very slow rate of decline in jobless claims, plus erosion in […]
The dollar rallied to a two-day high in narrow trade-weighted terms, with the DXY index pegging a high at 96.32, extending the rebound from yesterday’s five-week low at 95.78. The rotation higher in the U.S. currency has been driven by a bout of risk aversion in global stock markets, which raised safe-haven demand for dollars. […]
The dollar has weakened against the euro while holding within Thursday ranges against most other currencies. The common currency ran higher, despite Germany’s Merkel managing expectations into the start of the EU leaders’ summit on the EU recovery fund, saying earlier that “differences are still very big,” although remarking that there is a lot of […]
Currencies have hunkered down in narrow ranges, with the dollar and yen consolidating after rising against most other units yesterday. Global stock markets are lacking direction, too. The persisting pandemic remains a concern for investors, and even though the lack of fresh cases in many reopened countries which experienced pronounced infections (including to no-lockdown, no-mask […]
The euro has been in the outperforming lane amid signs that EU leaders are heading for a compromise on the EU recovery fund. The EU leaders’ summit has been dragging on since Friday, and will resume today at 14:00 GMT (10:00 ET). EUR-USD pegged a fresh four-and-a-half-month high at 1.1467, drawing nearer to the early […]
The euro has been in the outperforming lane amid signs that EU leaders are heading for a compromise on the EU recovery fund. The EU leaders’ summit has been dragging on since Friday, and will resume today at 14:00 GMT (10:00 ET). EUR-USD pegged a fresh four-and-a-half-month high at 1.1467, drawing nearer to the early […]
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