Sentences with phrase «dollar against the major currencies»

[1] To be fair, the decision to not hedge the currency exposure in international equities during the past decade had a lot to do with the weak U.S. dollar against major currencies.

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The dollar, traded against a basket of major currencies, rose as high as 92.566, the highest since Jan. 10, before retracing to 92.454.

In currencies, the dollar index, which tracks the U.S. currency against six major peers, traded at 92.478 at 2:56 p.m. HK / SIN, below the 92.8 handle touched on Wednesday and under a four - month high hit in the last session.

MARKETS: The dollar held near a four - month high against a basket of major currencies, buoyed by the outlook for a strong U.S. economy and rising yields amid signs of slowdown elsewhere, especially in Europe.

NEW YORK, April 13 - The dollar was little changed against a basket of major currencies on Friday as traders waited for more clarity on a possible Western military intervention in Syria.

The dollar index, which tracks the U.S. currency against a basket of six major peers, was little changed at 95.693, holding above Friday's 95.384, its lowest since July 5.

NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters)- The U.S. dollar rose to four - month highs against a basket of major currencies and world stock indexes mostly edged lower on Wednesday as investors awaited the outcome of a Federal Reserve meeting and possible indications on the interest rate outlook.

NEW YORK, Dec 29 - The dollar fell to its lowest in over three months against a basket of major currencies on Friday, on track for its biggest annual drop since 2003, on doubts over durability of a pickup in U.S. economic growth in wake of last week's tax overhaul.

NEW YORK, Dec 29 - The dollar fell to its lowest in over three months against a basket of major currencies on Friday, marking its steepest annual drop since 2003, on doubts over durability of a pickup in U.S. economic growth in wake of last week's tax overhaul.

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.

The dollar's index against a basket of six major currencies stood at 91.561, steady on the day but down from Friday's high of 91.986, its...

In the currency markets, the differing messages of the world's major central banks on inflation and monetary policy prodded the dollar higher against the yen ahead of a series of appearances by U.S. Federal Reserve officials this week.

In 2015, the dollar enjoyed its fastest rise in 40 years, and it continues to gain steam against the world's other major currencies.

It has helped that the dollar has stumbled against major currencies.

Elsewhere in forex markets, it's a relatively calm day, with a slight correction in the risk - off trade that we have been monitoring for weeks, as the yen is a tad lower today against all of its major peers, while the Dollar couldn't gain on risk - on currencies, despite the equity weakness.

The CEER index is a weighted average of bilateral exchange rates for the Canadian dollar against the currencies of Canada's major trading partners.

The dollar index against the world's major currencies is at a four month high with the interest rate gap set to widen between the dollar and euro - zone as the US Federal Reserve plans several more rate hikes this year.

The Canadian dollar has appreciated against the U.S. dollar by an amount similar to that of the currencies of two major commodity importers, Japan and the euro area (Chart 8).

The US dollar has declined more than 10 % against major currencies this year — despite two rate hikes and the Fed's announcement that it plans to reduce its massive balance sheet.

Soon after the Canadian dollar was floated the Bretton Woods system collapsed, and by 1973 all major currencies were floating against the US dollar.

The US dollar has been in a major bull market against most currencies since 2011.

Currency strategists gave weaker exchange rate forecasts for major emerging countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey in the monthly survey, pointing to a sixth straight year of dollar gains against most high - yielding currencies.

The externals have been mixed so far this week with the global equity markets in a light round of profit taking selling while the U.S. dollar is correcting to the downside after hitting new highs against most major currency pairs.

As a result, the dollar should continue to strengthen against most major currencies.

The dollar has also appreciated against a number of the other major currencies, including the pound and Canadian dollar.

Now if Fed decides to exit or even taper its QE policy, it will give rise to a highly bullish trend in US Dollar Index which has already gone higher against its major rival currencies.

Between late 1998 and the middle of 1999, the Australian dollar appreciated by around 6 per cent, both in import - weighted terms and against the major currencies, retracing around half of the earlier depreciation.

This reflects the fact that the US dollar has generally been weakening against other major currencies during this period, most noticeably against the yen.

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The U.S. dollar pared gains against a basket of major currencies on Friday after data showed the U.S. economy created fewer jobs than expected in December.

Against a basket of major currencies, the United States dollar rose.

Gold recovered as the U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback's strength against a basket of six major currencies, slid 0.21 % to 92.09, pulling back from Tuesday's four - month highs of 92.37.

The dollar came under heavy selling pressure against most major currencies in the wake of the Fed's announcement, which triggered a round of complaints from emerging markets worried about controlling inflation and maintaining their global competitiveness.

The US Dollar Index that tracks the greenback against a basket of six major currencies last stood at 92.39, down 0.22 %.

The U.S. dollar rose slightly against a basket of major currencies helped by optimism about progress on tax reform legislation and lawmakers» efforts to avert a U.S. government shutdown on Saturday.

The U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback's strength against a basket of six major currencies, was up 0.67 % to 92.24 by 10:21 AM ET (14:21 GMT), the highest level since January 11.

«Currency gains accounted for the bulk of the return this quarter, as the Canadian dollar continued to slide against most major currencies,» added MacDonald.

The US dollar has continued to depreciate against most of the major currencies that freely float against it.

From its early 2002 peak, the US dollar has fallen by 24 per cent on the major currency TWI but only 13 per cent on the broader measure, which includes several currencies that are either directly linked to the US dollar or closely managed against it.

In this environment the Australian dollar has appreciated strongly against the US dollar and against currencies of the non-Japan Asian region over the past year, though it has been relatively stable against other major floating currencies.

Additionally, we see that hedge funds are buying US dollars in spades against all the other major currencies.

Events in global foreign exchange markets have been dominated by the depreciation of the US dollar against all the major currencies that freely float against it.

Despite the continued weakness in commodity markets, the further decline in the Australian dollar against the major international currencies has meant that, in domestic - currency terms, commodity prices have remained roughly stable in recent months.

The US dollar has traded in a relatively stable range against the major currencies over the past six months, following the broad - based depreciation that began in early 2002 (Graph 20).

The dollar slipped against the other major Asian currencies on Thursday morning after it jumped to this year's new high while the Federal Reserve kept the interest rate unchanged.

The US dollar's weakness extended into another month, making the US currency's performance against other major currencies over the first seven months of 2017 its worst start to a year for more than three decades.

With improving employment figures, higher domestic production of commodities and a rise in levels of consumer confidence, the dollar rose in value against major currencies around the world, climbing to $ 1.49 against the pound in the first half of 2015.

This prompted a drop in value for the pound against the US dollar and most other major currencies, with the US dollar experiencing a sharp spike $ 1.36 per pound by January 2009.

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The euro was the star of the major currencies in January, as it soared to a 14 - month high against the dollar and a 33 - month high against the Japanese yen.

In February 2007, Invesco Ltd introduced a PowerShares UUP ETF for tracking the performance of the US Dollar against a basket of six major currencies.