FX SIGNALS Dollar riding high after index hits 100

FxPremiere.com – The U.S. dollar edged higher in early European trade Friday, trading at a two-year high and underpinned by the likelihood of sharp rises in interest rates by the Federal Reserve.

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At 4:05 AM ET (0805 GMT), the Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, traded 0.2% higher at 99.920, its best level since May 2020.

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The index is up 1.2% this week, in the wake of the release of the minutes of the Fed’s March meeting, which showed “many” participants were prepared to raise interest rates in 50-basis-point increments in coming months to combat inflation.

“The takeaway from the March Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes… was that the Federal Reserve seemed confident enough about growth and the labor market, but that inflation needed to be addressed—and fast,” said analysts at ING, in a note.

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“It seems clear that the Fed would have opted to start the cycle with a 50bp hike were it not for the war in Ukraine.”

St. Louis Fed President James Bullard is on the hawkish side of the debate, and he stated Thursday that the central bank needs to raise the federal funds rate by another 3 percentage points by year’s end.

“I would like to get there in the second half of this year…We have to move,” to get ahead of inflation running at triple the Fed’s 2% target, Bullard said. “We are talking about bigger moves than we have made in a long time.”

On the flip side, EUR/USD fell 0.2% to 1.0855, at a new one-month low, after the European Union agreed to a ban of Russian coal, starting from August, as punishment for alleged atrocities by Russian troops on Ukrainian civilians, something denied by Moscow.

Fears of a new Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine are growing, with Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba calling for Western countries to provide his country with more sophisticated weapons at a meeting with North Atlantic Treaty Organization counterparts in Brussels on Thursday.

FX SIGNALS Dollar riding high after index hits 100

The accounts from the March meeting of the European Central Bank showed policymakers as keen to unwind stimulus, but the specter of a euro-area recession in the wake of Russia’s invasion could still cause the central bank to pause.

Elsewhere, USD/JPY rose 0.1% to 124.09, climbing to its highest level in over a week and approaching last month’s near seven-year high of 125.10.

GBP/USD fell 0.2% to 1.3043, AUD/USD edged lower to 0.7477, while USD/CNY inched higher to 6.3626.

FX SIGNALS Dollar riding high after index hits 100

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That said, this was widely expected and Fed funds futures have already priced in a very strong chance of a 50 basis point hike next month. Bond yields have responded accordingly, with 2-year Treasury yields climbing near to 2.5%.

USD/JPY rose 0.2% to 122.72, with the yen falling again, following the heavy beating the Japanese currency took in March on the expectation of higher U.S. interest rates while Japanese rates remained anchored at rock bottom.

Elsewhere, EUR/USD fell 0.1% to 1.1044, weighed by talk of fresh sanctions on Moscow after Ukraine accused Russian forces of war crimes in the town of Bucha, something denied by Russia’s defense ministry. today forex signals

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Such a move would have severe economic ramifications on the Eurozone, to the detriment of the single currency, as Russia supplies some 40% of Europe’s gas needs.

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GBP/USD rose 0.2% to 1.3133, AUD/USD rose 0.2% to 0.7513 ahead of a Reserve Bank of Australia meeting on Tuesday, while USD/CNY was flat at 6.3634, with markets in mainland China closed for a public holiday.

USD/TRY rose 0.1% to 14.7037 ahead of the release of the latest Turkish inflation data, which are expected to raise the pressure on the lira.

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