Tuesday's US data did not add much to the debate. Redbook sales increased by 0.8% on the month and by an annual 7.9%; more than analysts had forecast but not enough to affect attitudes to the USD.
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Two-year USD swap rates have fallen 15 basis points from the early November highs, fuelled by a number of FOMC members
Sterling reacted positively to the rumour, then the confirmation, that Britain's government and the EU had agreed the draft of a withdrawal deal.
Investors were highly impressed by Friday's October employment report from the Bureau of Labor. Ahead of it, they were far from enthusiastic about the USD...
Among the first evidence of a thaw in the trade war is an order from China for up to two million tons of US soybeans...
In the back half of the field the USD lost 0.4% to its main benchmark, the EUR. The decline seems principally to have been the result of what, on the face of it, was a strong reading from the ISM's manufacturing sector...
Another good day for US equities, another bad one for the US dollar
The Fed said it would increase the federal funds rate in September
Sterling presses ahead on Brexit hopes
Give or take 0.2% - call it a quarter of a cent - the USD was unchanged on Friday during the London and New York sessions against the EUR, CHF, JPY, CAD, GBP, NOK and SEK. That is an unusually long list of non-movers.
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