The dollar weakened against the world's major global currencies on
Monday on budding hopes U.S. policymakers will steer the economy away from a
fast-approaching fiscal cliff. If untreated, the fiscal cliff could siphon over
USD600 billion out of the U.S. economy next year alone in the form of rising
taxes and cuts to government spending.
Last Friday, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders met
with President Barack Obama earlier to discuss ways to avoid the cliff, and both
sides emerged afterwards expressing optimism for a deal, which continued to draw
investors out of the safe-harbor dollar on Monday.
In other news, the euro traded steady to higher against the dollar
on Monday as investors went long ahead of a Tuesday meeting of Eurozone finance
ministers that could lead to fresh bailout money flowing into Greek
coffers.
On Tuesday, Eurozone finance ministers will meet to discuss
unlocking Greece’s next tranche of aid. Expectations that European Union
policymakers and the International Monetary Fund will disburse aid to
crisis-weary Athens began to build early in the session and stoked demand for
higher-yielding currencies, which came at the dollar's
expense.
In
latest news, as released by Rightmove House Price Index, “This month sees a
drop of 2.6% (-£6,407) in the asking prices of properties coming to market,
following the now familiar post-credit-crunch pattern of falls in November.
However, this is the least severe November fall since 2009 and still leaves
prices 2% (+£4,617) ahead of where they were this time last year – the highest
annual rate of increase achieved in November for five years”.
Later Monday, the U.S. is to release industry data on existing
home sales, a leading indicator of economic health.
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