European Open Preview – Dollar demand an unstoppable force; US inflation & UK GDP on the agenda
Posted on August 10, 2018 at 8:05 am GMTHere are the latest developments in global markets: FOREX: The US dollar index is higher by 0.63% on Friday, extending the significant gains it posted in the previous session and touching a new 13-month high. The euro and the pound are the main underperformers, both posting fresh multi-month lows against the greenback. The yen, meanwhile, remains firm amid risk-off tones. In EM, dollar/lira briefly broke above the 6.000 handle, with the pair being up by nearly 7.0% earlier in the [..]