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Dollar Down as Investors Digest the Curbing of Yuan, Await Key U.S. Economic Data

Published 2021-06-01, 01:35 a/m
Updated 2021-06-01, 01:35 a/m
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By Gina Lee

Investing.com – The dollar was down on Wednesday morning in Asia after China tightened its banks’ forex requirements to curb the appreciation of the yuan. Investors also await key U.S. economic data to gauge the country’s economic outlook.

The U.S. Dollar Index that tracks the greenback against a basket of other currencies edged down 0.21% to 89.808 by 1:26 AM ET (5:26 AM GMT).

The USD/CNY pair inched up 0.05% to 6.3717. Banks in China were forced by the People's Bank of China to hold more foreign currencies in reserve for the first time in more than a decade in order to stem the yuan’s surge.

The USD/JPY pair inched down 0.03% to 109.51.

The AUD/USD pair inched up 0.10% to 0.7742 as the Reserve Bank of Australia handed down its policy decision and kept its interest rates unchanged at 0.10%. The NZD/USD pair inched up 0.08% to 0.7274.

The GBP/USD pair edged up 0.19% to 1.4236.

Investors are still digesting data released during the previous week that said the Core Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Index increased 3.1% year-on-year in April, above the Fed’s 2% target and the argest annual gain since 1992.

Trimmed measures of inflation, which eliminate the most extreme price changes, show the U.S. has no inflation problem, and markets will need to unwind some of the expectation for near-term policy tightening, which will weigh on the dollar, said Joseph Capurso, a strategist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (OTC:CMWAY).

Fed Vice Chair Randal Quarles and Fed Governor Lael Brainard are due to speak later in the day.

On the data front, investors now await U.S. data, including non-farm payrolls and the unemployment rate in May, due to be released on Friday.

The U.S. shows no inflation problem without considering trimmed measures of inflation, and investors don’t need to be concerned about an earlier-than-expected policy tightening, which will weigh on the dollar, Commonwealth Bank of Australia strategist Joseph Capurso told Reuters.

Meanwhile, the global economic recovery from Covid-19 will provide an additional headwind, according to Capurso.

"The world economy is clearly recovering, and that is going to be bad for the U.S. dollar because it’s a counter-cyclical currency…The U.S. dollar has been pretty heavy in the last few weeks, and I think it keeps trending lower," he told Reuters.

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