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Forex Market Update: Dollar Recovers As Yields On Treasuries Soar

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The U.S. dollar gained traction against a basket of rival currencies on Friday after a tumultuous trading session on Thursday; however, the currency will remain vulnerable as concerns over when the Federal Reserve would start to scale down its quantitative easing, still linger.

The dollar index, a measure on U.S. unit’s performance against a basket of six major currencies, inched up 0.08% to 81.24.

Traders said that soaring yields on 10-year treasuries supported the demand for dollars.

The U.S. dollar, which turned broadly higher on Thursday after the Labor Department said that weekly jobless claims were at its lowest level in almost last six years, slumped after several economic data releases pointed towards economic slowdown.

While industrial output remained flat in July, manufacturing activities in the New York State and factory activities in the mid-Atlantic region contracted sharply in August.

A set of mixed economic data on Thursday weighed on the U.S. unit as investors remained clueless over the pullback of the bond purchase program.

“This is a tough market for speculators. It’s big on volatility, but no clear trends,” said Masashi Murata, senior currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in Tokyo, according to Reuters.

“The market seems to have priced in tapering this September, and that’s why U.S. Treasury yields went up to around 2.8 percent, so that should be supporting the dollar/yen,” added Murata.








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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.

Ed Liston

Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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