U.S. DOLLAR: WHAT THE FED EXPECTS

The price action in the currency market over the past 24 hours suggests that foreign exchange traders may have already gone into holiday mode. Intraday trading ranges are beginning to shrink and the performance of the dollar was mixed against the key currencies. For example, the dollar traded higher against the British pound and commodity currencies (AUD, NZD, CAD) but fell against the euro, Japanese Yen and Swiss Franc. Although U.S. equities ended the NY trading session in negative territory, it was off its lows. With the holiday looming in the U.S., forex traders are hesitant about taking the dollar to a fresh year to date low against the euro and Japanese Yen. However the fact that the EUR/USD remains above 1.49 and USD/JPY is trading at a one month low suggests that we could see further losses in the U.S. dollar

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