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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ holds near 14-month highs as greenback softens, oil firms

Published 2017-07-25, 09:28 a/m
Updated 2017-07-25, 09:30 a/m
© Reuters.  CANADA FX DEBT-C$ holds near 14-month highs as greenback softens, oil firms

* Canadian dollar at C$1.2489 or 80.07 U.S. cents

* Bond prices lower across the maturity curve

TORONTO, July 25 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar firmed against the greenback on Tuesday, as the U.S. dollar slid against a basket of currencies and oil prices climbed on promises by major producers to help control oversupply.

The combination of a weaker U.S. dollar, higher oil prices and robust economic data helped push the Canadian dollar to its strongest level in 14 months on Monday, breaching the C$1.25, or 80 U.S. cents, level.

At 9:10 a.m. ET (1310 GMT), the Canadian dollar CAD=D4 was trading at C$1.2489 to the greenback, or 80.07 U.S. cents, up 0.2 percent.

The currency's strongest level of the session was C$1.2487, while its weakest level was C$1.2526.

The next key level analysts are eyeing is C$1.2461, or 80.25 U.S. cents, hit in May 2016.

The currency has gained some 10 percent since early May, while the spread between yields of Canadian and U.S. 2-year bonds has narrowed sharply since June and sits at 7.2 basis points, its narrowest in more than a year.

The U.S. dollar fell to a more than one-year low against its rivals ahead of a two-day Federal Reserve meeting that starts later on Tuesday. Markets are giving a less than 50 percent probability of a interest rate increase before the end of the year, according to CME's Fed watch tool. FRX/

Prices of crude oil, a key Canadian export, strengthened further after Saudi Arabia promised to curb exports and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and non-OPEC producers discussed extending their deal to cut output beyond March 2018 if necessary. O/R

U.S. crude CLc1 prices were up 2.03 percent to $47.28 a barrel.

Canadian government bond prices were lower across the maturity curve, with the two-year CA2YT=RR price down 5.5 Canadian cents to yield 1.307 percent and the benchmark 10-year CA10YT=RR falling 54 Canadian cents to yield 1.987 percent.

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