* Canadian dollar at C$1.3138 to the greenback
* Bond prices lower across the maturity curve
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed
Aug 27 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar was little changed against its U.S. counterpart on Thursday as the U.S. currency recovered from early weakness following the U.S. Federal Reserve's approval of a new strategy revising its established practice of preemptively lifting interest rates to head off inflation.
The Canadian dollar CAD= was at C$1.3126 to the greenback, or 76.18 U.S. cents, close to Wednesday's close of C$1.3139, or 76.11 U.S. cents. Earlier in the session, the loonie hit a 7-month high of C$1.3105 before erasing the day's gains.
Stability in the price of oil, one of Canada's main exports, along with robust investor appetite for riskier assets, has helped support the Canadian dollar in recent sessions.
The Federal Reserve on Thursday rolled out an aggressive new strategy to restore the United States to full employment and lift inflation back to healthier levels in a world where it now believes that "downward risks to employment and inflation have increased." this week, Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri said the economic shock of the pandemic will test public confidence in the bank's inflation target. remains to be seen how far the policy review takes the BoC from its current mandate but there is clearly a strong current of thought running among central bankers in North America at least that allowing inflation to run a little 'hot' may be an approach worth looking at more closely," Shaun Osborne, chief FX strategist at Scotia Bank, said in a note.
Canadian government bond prices were lower across the maturity curve. The two-year CA2YT=RR yield was at 0.294% up from 0.294% late on Wednesday, while the benchmark Canadian 10-year CA10YT=RR yield rose to 0.624% from 0.61%.