Currency market subdued ahead of fresh US economic data

Market participants still see a 65% chance of a rate cut in June, though that has edged down from 71% earlier in the week, showed LSEG's rate probability app. The likelihood of a July rate cut sits around 83%.

With the Fed widely expected to hold rates steady at its meeting next week, attention will be on the bank's updated economic projections.

"The data is driving marginal changes in rate expectations, but ultimately, the markets have been pretty settled recently on three cuts this year," said Kyle Rodda, senior financial market analyst at Capital.com.

"A more hawkish Fed next week could lower that to two (rate cuts) and defer expectations for the first to September," which would essentially be a bull case for the U.S. dollar, he said.

The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of six currencies, was mostly flat at 102.77.

Markets will be scrutinising U.S. retail sales data, the producer prices index (PPI) report and jobless claims due later on Thursday for more evidence of the economy slowing down.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said last week the U.S. central bank was "not far" from gaining the confidence needed to begin easing.

Against the yen, the dollar held at 147.69 yen, as an exit from negative rates at the Bank of Japan's monetary policy meeting on March 18-19 continues to be a close call.

Sources told Reuters that Japan's central bank will debate ending negative rates next week if big firms' wage talks yield strong results.

The preliminary results of the spring wage negotiations are due on Friday, and news has already begun to trickle out that several of the country's biggest companies have agreed to fully meet union demands for pay increases.

Elsewhere, the euro was holding steady against the dollar at $1.0949, ahead of remarks by several European Central Bank officials on Thursday.

Sterling was flat at $1.2796. Data on Wednesday showed Britain's economy returned to growth in January after entering a shallow recession in the second half of 2023.

In cryptocurrencies, bitcoin was last down 0.28% to $72,950.00, after hitting a record high of $73,678 the previous session.

Ether fell 0.03% to $3,991.00.

Source: Forex-Markets-Economic Times

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