Dollar Retains Positive Tone on Covid

FxPremiere.com – The US dollar index was largely unchanged in early European trade Friday, but the tone remains positive on worries the Covid-19 virus could stunt global growth just as the Federal Reserve starts to cut back its pandemic-era monetary stimulus.

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At 2:50 AM ET (0650 GMT), the Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, traded flat at 93.558, after earlier Friday rising as high as 93.612 for the first time since early November. It’s on track to gain 1.1% this week, the most in two months.

EUR/USD was 0.1% higher at 1.1686, near the over 9-month low of 1.1665 reached overnight, USD/JPY was largely flat at 109.70, while GBP/USD fell 0.1% to 1.3624, not far off a new one-month low after a sharp 2.5% fall in U.K. retail sales in July, a signal that the country’s recovery may be losing momentum.

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That said, the biggest losses against the dollar were reserved for the so-called commodity currencies. AUD/USD fell 0.3% to 0.7127, more than a 9-month low, over 3% lower this week, as a Covid-19 lockdown in Sydney was extended by a month.

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USD/CAD rose 0.3% to 1.2870, a fresh six-month high, with the sudden drop in oil prices hurting the Canadian economy.

The spreading of the highly-transmissible delta variant of the Covid-19 virus is prompting concerns that the economic recovery from the first outbreak may be stalling. But, adding to this is the idea that the Federal Reserve.

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“The mood-music from the Fed is very much one of a glide-path to tapering,” said analysts at ING, in a note, and “it looks like a lot of demand for the dollar is coming from investors pulling out of growth stories overseas.”

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Elsewhere, USD/CNY traded 0.1% higher at 6.5015, just off the new three-week high of 6.5104 seen earlier and above the key 6.50 level, after the People’s Bank of China maintained its one-year loan prime rate at 3.85% and the five-year LPR at 4.65%.

While this move to keep its benchmark interest rates unchanged was widely expected, there had been some looking for a cut given the slowdown in growth at the world’s second largest economy after a spate of localized Covid-19 outbreaks that have resulted in extensive lockdowns.

Dollar Retains Positive Tone on Covid

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Dollar Retains Positive Tone on Covid