* MSCI AWCI, Dow, S&P500 indexes hit fresh highs. * Canadian, European indexes also set records. * Copper at all-time high on recovery prospects. * Emergency market currencies shine. * Graphic: Global asset performance http://tmsnrt.rs/2yaDPgn. * Graphic: World FX rates http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh. By Herbert Lash and Ritvik Carvalho.
U.S. dollar net short positioning climbed this week to the highest level since mid-March, according to calculations by Reuters and Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday. The value of the net short dollar position rose to $11.95 billion in the week ended May 4, from net shorts of $10.27 billion the previous week.
Latin American stocks and currencies
gained on Friday and were set for large weekly gains as weak
U.S. payrolls data pushed the dollar to a more than two-month
low, which helped emerging market ...
The Canadian dollar was little
changed against the greenback on Friday as jobs data for both
Canada and the United States fell short of estimates, with the
loonie holding near its strongest level in ...
* MSCI AWCI, Dow, S&P500 indexes hit fresh highs. * Copper at all-time high on recovery prospects. * Graphic: Global asset performance http://tmsnrt.rs/2yaDPgn. * Graphic: World FX rates http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh. By Herbert Lash and Ritvik Carvalho.
* MSCI AWCI, Dow, S&P500 indexes hit fresh highs. * Copper hits all-time high on recovery prospects. * Graphic: Global asset performance http://tmsnrt.rs/2yaDPgn. * Graphic: World FX rates http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh. By Herbert Lash and Ritvik Carvalho.
The rand gained strongly on Friday, hitting its highest level against the dollar since January 2020, hours before Moody's was scheduled to publish a review of South Africa's credit rating. The main driver was worse-than-expected U.S. jobs data, which hurt the dollar.
MSCI's emerging market currency index sailed to a new record high on Friday, lifted by the dollar skidding to a multi-month low in the wake of disappointing jobs data.
Latin American currencies gained on Friday
and were set for large weekly gains as weak payrolls data pushed
the dollar to a more-than two-month low, while Brazil's real
jumped to a near ...
* Dollar down broadly. * MSCI EM currency index hits record high. * Graphic: World FX rates https://tmsnrt.rs/2RBWI5E. By John McCrank. The dollar fell to its lowest in more than two months on Friday after U.S. jobs data for April came in well below expectations, putting a damper on hopes that a roaring economic recovery would lead to higher rates any time soon.
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