(Update: re-leads, new headline, adds more info, minor edits) By Paloma Almoguera Singapore, Jun 11 (EFE).- The Indo-Pacific is the United States’ “priority theater of operations”, US defense secretary Lloyd Austin told the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier defense forum, in Singapore Saturday, and reiterated Washington’s support for its allies in the face of an “more …
USS Sampson (DDG-102) transited the Taiwan Strain on Tuesday, the Navy announced. Sampson‘s transit through the strait was a routine operation and was done in accordance with international laws, according to a statement from U.S. 7th Fleet. “The ship’s transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the United States’ commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” […]
Dec 31, 2020 03:32 GMTFXStreet News
USD/JPY remains on the back foot for third consecutive day, probes one week low.
DXY drops to fresh low since April 2018 amid mild risk-on, fears of virus woes in the US and Japan.
Markets in Japan are off today, Japan’s Nishimura earlier warned over the national emergency.
US jobless data, risk catalyst to keep the driver’s seat.
USD/JPY drops to the intraday low of 103.08, down 0.17% on a day, during the early Thursday’s trading. The yen pair ignores off in Japan while cheering the US dollar weakness.
The US dollar index (DXY) drops to the fresh multi-month low of 89.51, down 0.10% intraday, by press time. The cautious optimism over the US coronavirus (COVID-19) stimulus and vaccine favor, coupled with the passage of the Brexit deal, exerts an initial burden on the greenback. Also challenging the USD could be the two cases of covid strain, in Colorado and California respectively, that earlier shook the UK.