{"id":44950,"date":"2021-04-26T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T10:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=44950"},"modified":"2021-04-26T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T10:36:52","slug":"currencies-overview-dollar-falling-to-8-week-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/currencies-overview-dollar-falling-to-8-week-low\/04\/26\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Currencies Overview: Dollar Falling to 8-Week Low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The dollar fell to a nearly eight-week low against other major currencies on Monday, amid speculation that US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will avoid talks on easing bond purchases at this week&#8217;s meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dollar reached 107.71 yen, close to the lowest level since the fourth of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The euro rose to $1.2117, extending the gains it made on Friday after positive data on services and manufacturing activities in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pound sterling was up 0.2% in recent trading at 1.3902, adding to its 0.3% increase in the previous session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dollar was little changed against the Swiss franc at 0.91225, near a two-month low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In emerging markets, traders are watching the Turkish lira to see if it will reach an all-time low of 8.58 to the dollar due to deteriorating relations with the United States and concerns about the central bank governor&#8217;s inclination to ease. The lira was last trading at 8.4225.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The yuan rose in internal transactions to 6.4889 dollars, close to a six-week high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Australian and New Zealand dollars advanced towards their highest levels in a month, but traders say they are likely heading towards tracking the effects of global commodity price movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the cryptocurrency market, Bitcoin returned to surpass the level of fifty thousand dollars and was in the latest transactions high 6.7% to 52 thousand and 417 dollars, and its smaller competitor Ethereum increased 6% to 2460 dollars, to compensate for some of the losses it incurred from last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dollar fell to a nearly eight-week low against other major currencies on Monday, amid speculation that US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will avoid talks on easing bond purchases at this week&#8217;s meeting. The dollar reached 107.71 yen, close to the lowest level since the fourth of March. The euro rose to $1.2117, extending &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":31172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6827,49,36],"tags":[7211,6877,6928,6882],"class_list":["post-44950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-daily-economic-reports","category-economic-reports","category-market-updates","tag-currencies","tag-dollar","tag-euro","tag-forex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44951,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44950\/revisions\/44951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}