Focus Shifts to Dollar and Rates
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The post-election stock market rally has been rudely interrupted by the implications of a sliding US dollar, higher interest rates, the US current account deficit and Friday&#39;s rebound in oil prices.
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The dollar held steady against the euro  and the yen on Thursday near overnight levels, with traders  keeping one eye on the euro and the other on U.S. jobs data for  clues to the near-term direction of the U.S. currency.
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The dollar rallied on Wednesday as  investors focused on relative interest rates, which  increasingly were expected to favor the dollar, and reversed  some bets against the currency.
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The dollar strengthened a little against  major currencies on Tuesday, firming ahead of a Federal Reserve  interest rate decision and a gathering of Group of Seven  finance ministers and central bankers later in the week.
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The dollar moved in narrow ranges against  the yen on Monday as option-related and exporter selling capped  the U.S. currency and traders awaited the Bank of Japan's key  corporate sentiment survey.
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The dollar shuffled in narrow ranges  against the yen on Monday as option-related and exporter  selling capped the U.S. currency and traders awaited a key  corporate sentiment survey from the Bank of Japan.
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The dollar recouped earlier losses against the yen on Thursday, but currencies shuttled in narrow ranges as investors awaited direction from U.S. growth data and comments from Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan.
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The dollar marked time ahead of a rush of US data expected to shed more light on the outlook for US interest rates, dealers said.
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The dollar inched up on Monday but traders struggled to find direction in a market devoid of economic data.
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The dollar slipped on Thursday as  traders adjusted positions to neutral levels ahead of Friday's  key U.S. payrolls report but some analysts think the currency  is poised to rally against the euro.
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The dollar edged up on Tuesday, pulling  away from a five-year low against the yen as the market began  to return its attention to the attraction of rising interest  rates in the United States.
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The dollar fought back from one-month  lows against the euro and Swiss franc on Wednesday as investors  viewed its sell-off in the wake of the Federal Reserve's  verdict on interest rates as overdone.
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The dollar firmed on Wednesday as  investors awaited comments from the Federal Reserve chief that  are expected to point to further rises in U.S. interest rates  this year.
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The dollar held in a narrow range Wednesday, shaking off growing US recession fears, as the markets awaited European interest rate decisions.
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The dollar gained tentatively on  Monday, recovering from last week's record low against the euro  and a 4-1/2-year trough against the yen as traders turned their  sights to U.S. economic reports due later in the week.
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The dollar moved in tight ranges on  Wednesday as most investors shrugged off lower-than-expected  U.S. inflation data and stuck to the view the U.S. Federal  Reserve would continue raising rates.
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NEW YORK Suddenly all eyes are on a weakening dollar. In recent days, the American currency has fallen against the euro, the yen and most other currencies around the world.