Sentences with phrase «against key currencies»

NEW YORK, Jan 2 - European stocks closed lower on Tuesday, the first trading day of 2018, while Wall Street advanced and the U.S. dollar fell to its weakest in over three months against key currencies.

NEW YORK, Jan 3 - The U.S. dollar extended gains against key currencies on Wednesday after the release of minutes from last month's Federal Reserve meeting, while world shares smashed records on investor optimism in the new year.

NEW YORK, Jan 2 - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite notched record closing highs on Tuesday, the first trading day of 2018, while European equities finished lower and the U.S. dollar fell to its weakest level in over three months against key currencies.

Not exact matches

The U.S. dollar surged into positive territory for 2018 and broke past key levels against several currencies as a divergence between growth and the interest rate outlook versus other countries spurred investors to chase the currency higher.

Elsewhere, the dollar held at a three - month high against a basket of currencies, after having received a boost from U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields holding near the key 3 percent level.

NEW YORK, May 1 - The U.S. dollar surged into positive territory for 2018 on Tuesday and broke past key levels against several currencies as a divergence between growth and the interest rate outlook versus other countries spurred investors to chase the currency higher.

The U.S. dollar surged on Tuesday into positive territory for 2018 and broke past key levels against several currencies.

One of the key drivers has been the dollar, which has lost 3.2 % against a basket of major currencies so far this year, a decline that was exacerbated last week when U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin suggested President Donald Trump's administration favored a weaker currency.

On the positive side, we benefitted from a healthy recovery in the global air cargo industry, as well as the relative strengthening of key currencies against the US dollar.

Also the USD declined against higher - yielding currencies on prospects the lack of U.S. job growth will keep Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke from raising the key interest rate.

It's been done before; but I would urge against it because it gives up a key advantage that all of our debt is denominated in a currency that we think we control.