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The U.S dollar fell against most of its major rivals on Thursday, in quiet trading in anticipation of the upcoming important economic data overseas
Market participants remained cautious before the release of the long awaited government’s report on employment in the U.S. A weak numbers would change intention of the Fed to raise interest rates on one of its upcoming meetings, later this year. Most of the analyst expected to show that the U.S economy added more than 200,000 non-farm payrolls last month, up from a subpar gain of 173 000 in August.
Economic news from the U.S showed that unemployment claims jumped by 10,000 to 277,000 in the week ended 09.25.2015 compared to the previous reporting period. In addition, ISM manufacturing PMI reported a decline to 50.2 in September, which was below analyst’ expectation of 50.6 points.
Consequently, the currency pair EUR/USD rose from 1.1175 to 1.1194, while USD/JPY recorded minimum growth of 6 pips to 119.91.
The British pound was almost unchanged against the American dollar, registering a growth of minimum 5 pips to 1.5130, but ended the negative series of seven consecutive days of decline. PMI index in manufacturing, according to Markit/CIPS rose 0.2 points to 51.5 above analyst’s expectation.
During the last trading session the dollar index, which measures performance of the "greenback" against a basket of six currencies recorded a fall of 0.16% to 96.29.
Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar moved higher for the second consecutive day against the U.S. USD/CAD retreated 44 pips to 1.3267.
The Australian and New Zealand dollar performed steadily against its U.S namesake on Thursday, as "Aussie" rose to 0.7029, and the "Kiwi" jumped to 0.6398.
Gold ended negative territory for the fourth consecutive day, the price of the precious metal moved lower by nearly $2 to $1,113.50 an ounce.