Euro heads for US$1.20 as dollar selloff gathers pace | Malay Mail

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LONDON, Sept 1 — The euro neared the US$1.20 mark today after it scaled another 28-month high and the dollar slipped to a multi-year low as investors bet the Federal Reserve’s policy framework meant US rates would stay low for longer. The euro reached US$1.1997 in Asian trading hours, its...

File photo illustration of various Euro banknotes lying next to various Swiss Franc notes at a bank in Warsaw, July 18, 2011. — Reuters pic

The Fed’s announcement last week that it would tolerate periods of higher inflation and focus more on average inflation and higher employment has encouraged traders to sell the dollar. ING analysts said, “no imminent response from the ECB is likely and as the US dollar outlook remains unappealing, the bias remains for higher EUR/USD this week”.The dollar index — which measures the US currency against a basket of rivals — was down 0.3 per cent at 91.917 at 1020 GMT after earlier hitting its lowest since April 2018.

 

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