* Dollar index touches highest since Dec 21. * Oil falls on China, Europe lockdowns. * Currencies vs. * Global asset performance in 2021 http://tmsnrt.rs/2jvdmXl. By Rodrigo Campos. NEW YORK, Jan 15 - Stocks and oil prices fell on Friday pressured by intensifying lockdowns and weak U.S. retail sales data, while the dollar was on track to post its strongest week in over two months.
* Dollar higher across the board. * Pound knocked by sour market mood. By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed. The U.S. dollar rose across the board to hit a near four-week high against a basket of currencies on Friday, as economic data showing the COVID-19 pandemic's continuing toll on the economy boosted demand for the safe-haven currency.
* Graphic: World FX rates in 2020 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh. * Graphic: Trade-weighted sterling since Brexit vote http://tmsnrt.rs/2hwV9Hv. By Joice Alves. Sterling fell on Friday, taking a hit from a deteriorating global risk backdrop, though data showing Britain's November lockdown was less damaging for the economy than expected kept a floor under the currency.
Brazil's real bucked a three-day winning
streak on Friday after data showed the first decline in retail
sales in seven months, although the currency is set to
outperform its Latin American peers ...
The Canadian dollar weakened
against its U.S. counterpart on Friday, giving back this week's
gains, as rising COVID-19 cases in China crimped risk appetite,
while domestic data showed home sales ...
* Dollar index up 0.2% as Biden offers $1.9 trillion stimulus. * COVID-19 infections rise in China. * Graphic: World FX rates https://tmsnrt.rs/2RBWI5E. By Elizabeth Howcroft.
Central European currencies and
stocks were flat on Friday as investors' concerns about
heightened U.S.-China tensions and a strengthening dollar kept
most emerging currencies under pressure.
The fastest Covid-19 vaccination rollout in the world is drawing investors to Israel, making its stock market one of the top performers in 2021.. Israel's benchmark TA-125 stock index has gained nearly 6% this year in dollar terms, outperforming both the S&P 500 and the eurozone's Euro Stoxx Index. Last year, the TA-125 didn't fare as well as either of those gauges, rising just 4.3% in dollar terms.
* Graphic: World FX rates in 2020 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh. * Graphic: Trade-weighted sterling since Brexit vote http://tmsnrt.rs/2hwV9Hv. By Joice Alves. Sterling rose against the euro on Friday, touching an almost two-month high, after data showed Britain's national lockdown in November was less damaging for the economy than expected.
* MSCI's EM stocks index set for third week of gains. * Rouble, shekel and zloty to see FX intervention. * Analysts say U.S. dollar, yield strength temporary. By Ambar Warrick. Turkey's lira led losses across emerging-market currencies on Friday as a survey showed 2021 inflation remaining elevated, while stocks fell from record highs as focus turned to a U.S. stimulus package.
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