US recap: Dollar rises for fourth day as pound sinks
Oct 3 (Reuters) -The dollar index rose for fourth day Thursday as U.S. 10-year Treasury yields climbed to the highest level in nearly a month amid rising oil prices and U.S. data showing the economy remains healthy.
Continuing jobless claims edged lower in the latest week and the U.S. services PMI for September was 55.2
Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said two weeks of stockpiles were built in anticipation of the U.S. dockworkers' strike and that interest rates need to drop "by a lot" over the next 12 months.
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he believed progress was being made in the port labor contract dispute.
The pound suffered one of its worst declines in the last two years after Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said, in a Guardian interview, that the central bank could be more aggressive cutting interest rates if inflation recedes.
Japan Prime Minister Ishiba said the government intends to work with Bank of Japan to reach an early end to deflation and achieve sustainable growth.
Treasury yields were up 4 to 7 basis points, and the 2s-10s curve was slightly flatter at +13.6bp.
The S&P 500 fell 0.35% amid higher yields and a risk-off tone.
Oil rose 5.40% with all eyes on key producing countries in the Middle East and mounting concerns that a widening regional conflict could pose a threat to global crude flows.
Gold was little changed on the session.
Copper slid 2.16% on geopolitical tensions and the firmer dollar.
Heading toward the close: EUR/USD -0.14%, USD/JPY +0.24%, GBP/USD -1.12%, AUD/USD -0.59%, DXY +0.28%, EUR/JPY +0.09%, GBP/JPY -0.92%, AUD/JPY -0.34%.
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Editing by Burton Frierson
Reporting by Robert Fullem
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