Powell presses pause on dollar’s rally; sterling surging By Reuters
By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar hovered around a two-week low on Thursday, weighed down by the latest insistence from Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell that rate increases aren't on the radar, while sterling has been riding higher with re-opening optimism. Overnight, the Fed first sounded confident about the economy in its statement. Then Powell was more circumspect and said in his news conference that rate increases were "a ways away" and that the job market still had "some ground to cover". The greenback initially rose following the statement, before retreating to a two-week...
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