SINGAPORE : The U.S. dollar was little changed on Thursday as investors looked ahead to next week's U.S. inflation data and digested comments from a slew of Federal Reserve officials who said modest interest rate rises were on the way.Moving to a federal funds rate of between 5.00 per cent and 5.25 per ce
SINGAPORE : The U.S. dollar was little changed on Thursday as investors looked ahead to next week's U.S. inflation data and digested comments from a slew of Federal Reserve officials who said modest interest rate rises were on the way.
The dollar index, which measures the U.S. currency against six rivals, was 0.029 per cent higher on Thursday at 103.460, having dropped nearly 0.3 per cent in the previous session. Meanwhile, the euro was up 0.04 per cent at $1.0713, off the one-month low of $1.067 it touched on Tuesday.
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