US dollar, Japanese Yen find support as investors put safety first

The dollar and Japanese yen both found support in a choppy Asia session on Monday, benefiting from a bid for safety as investors worried rising interest rates and softening economic data

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Reuters Singapore
3 min read Last Updated : Jun 27 2022 | 12:10 PM IST

The dollar and Japanese yen both found support in a choppy Asia session on Monday, benefiting from a bid for safety as investors worried rising interest rates and softening economic data could signal a global recession is on the horizon.

While stocks followed Wall Street higher, currency traders were wary of extending Friday's dollar selling too much because the dollar typically rises in times of uncertainty. [MKTS/GLOB]

The risk-sensitive Australian dollar was shaky along with commodity prices through the Asia session, and was last down 0.1% at $0.6935.

The euro was pinned at $1.0564. The beaten-down yen steadied at 134.81 per dollar. The U.S. dollar index was steady at 104.000, after reaching a 20-year peak of 105.79 earlier in the month.

Weakening U.S. economic data knocked it off that perch last week, and a survey released on Friday showed consumer confidence at a record low, giving another prompt for investors to cut back bets on U.S. interest rate hikes.

But the spectre of a global slowdown, and a preference for dollar-denominated assets in such times, has prevented further falls.

"The dollar tends to rise when people worry about a global recession," said Commonwealth Bank of Australia strategist Joe Capurso in Sydney.

Futures pricing shows traders now anticipating the U.S. Federal Reserve's benchmark funds rate stabilising around 3.5% from March next year, a pullback from pricing in rates zooming to around 4% in 2023. Treasuries rallied last week.

The New Zealand dollar hovered at $0.6321, while sterling was stuck at $1.2285. [NZD/][GBP/]

Chinese factory activity data due to be released later this week could provide a guide as to whether the world's second-largest economy is finding momentum again after the disruption caused by strict COVID-19 lockdown measures.

China's yuan caught a boost after Shanghai's top party boss declared victory over COVID-19 and it was last up slightly at 6.6856 per dollar.[CNY/]

Elsewhere, Russia's rouble fell in the interbank market as Russia headed for its first sovereign default since the Bolshevik revolution a century ago.

The rouble was last quoted at 53.60 per dollar, which is actually stronger than where it sat before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, though sanctions make it sparsely traded.

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Currency bid prices at 0556 GMT

Description RIC Last U.S. Close Pct Change YTD Pct High Bid Low Bid

Previous Change

Session

Euro/Dollar

$1.0562 $1.0558 +0.04% -7.09% +1.0575 +1.0550

 

Dollar/Yen

134.8550 133.4300 +1.10% +17.28% +135.2050 +134.5600

 

Euro/Yen

142.45 142.69 -0.17% +9.31% +142.9700 +142.0600

 

Dollar/Swiss

0.9576 0.9586 -0.10% +4.98% +0.9581 +0.9566

 

Sterling/Dollar

1.2283 1.2273 +0.10% -9.16% +1.2296 +1.2269

 

Dollar/Canadian

1.2881 1.2888 -0.04% +1.89% +1.2916 +1.2870

 

Aussie/Dollar

0.6932 0.6941 -0.13% -4.64% +0.6958 +0.6906

 

NZ

Dollar/Dollar 0.6320 0.6314 +0.10% -7.66% +0.6326 +0.6296

 

 

All spots

Tokyo spots

Europe spots

Volatilities

Tokyo Forex market info from BOJ

 

(Reporting by Tom Westbrook; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Christian Schmollinger)

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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First Published: Jun 27 2022 | 12:10 PM IST

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