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The dollar slides in thin Black Friday trading on bets has peaked

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The dollar slides in thin Black Friday trading on bets has peaked. On Friday, investors gambled that U.S. interest rates had reached their highest point, which caused the dollar to fall. On the other hand, the yen increased as Japan’s core consumer price rise stepped up, reinforcing views that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) may soon take back monetary stimulus.

Because U.S. markets were closed on Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday and are scheduled to have a shorter trading session on Black Friday, currency prices are anticipated to move narrowly but with some volatility because liquidity is expected to remain low.

The dollar index, which compares the value of the American currency to that of its six most closely traded competitors, decreased by 0.077% to reach 103.69, maintaining its proximity to the two-and-a-half-month low of 103.17 that it reached earlier this week.

The index is now trading at a level that is 2.8% lower than it was at this time last month, putting it on track for its worst monthly performance in almost a year as a result of rising views that the Federal Reserve has finished hiking interest rates and may begin reducing them in the next year.

Futures contracts currently imply a 25% likelihood that the Fed will drop its target rate at the March 2024 policy meeting, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool, down from a 33% chance last week. This comes after the financial markets reduced their anticipation of Fed-rate reductions in 2024.

According to a statement by Mohit Kumar, a strategist at Jefferies, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank would most likely reduce interest rates around June and September. However, the Bank of England may move around May and August, and it may become the first central bank to reduce interest rates.

“Last week, we brought to your attention that the market was pricing in the first rate cut from the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of England by June 2023… According to what he said, “In our view, the bid-offer for first cuts is June to Q3 of next year.”

Elsewhere, the Japanese yen stabilized at 149.58 after gaining ground on the release of data indicating that Japan’s core consumer price rise perked up somewhat in October after having slowed the previous month.

This gave markets further reason to believe that the BOJ may have to reduce its monetary support sooner rather than later due to persistent inflation. The value of the Asian currency is currently up 1.5% for the month, having increased from a near 33-year low of 151.92 that it reached at the beginning of the previous week.

Economists from ING have stated that they anticipate the Bank of Japan shifting away from its highly accommodating policy in the coming year.

“We believe that the BOJ may scrap the yield curve program as early as the first quarter of next year, as Japanese government bonds appear to have stabilized,” according to analysts.

The financial institution plans to “begin its first rate hike in Q2 2024 if wage growth continues to accelerate next year.” According to statistics released by the government on Friday, the countrywide core consumer price index (CPI) excludes the unpredictable costs of fresh food and was up 2.9% year-on-year in October. This result is lower than the 3.0% increase that analysts polled by Reuters anticipated seeing.

A business survey released on Friday indicated that industrial activity in Japan decreased for the sixth month in November, while modest growth in the service sector was little altered. This highlights the precarious nature of the economy in the context of low demand and inflation.

After statistics corroborated an early estimate published in late October that indicated Germany’s economy shrunk slightly in the third quarter compared with the previous three months, the euro inched 0.05% higher to $1.0911. This occurred after the data revealed that Germany’s GDP shrank marginally in the third quarter.

After gaining some territory on Thursday due to a series of early surveys showing that the recession in Germany may be milder than predicted, which offset dismal data on French business activity, the single currency is currently resting to catch its breath after gaining some ground.


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