Dollar regains momentum as yen struggles

The yen was last little changed at 154.75 per dollar, edging away from its peak of 151.86 hit last week on the back of suspected intervention from Japanese authorities to prop up the sliding currency.

Analysts have said that any intervention from Tokyo would only serve as a temporary respite for the yen, given stark between the U.S. and Japan remain.

Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Wednesday the central will scrutinise the impact of yen moves on inflation in guiding monetary policy, while the country's Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki repeated a warning that authorities were ready to respond to excessively volatile moves in the .

"If we were to see a sudden, sharp move up in dollar/yen then I would expect them to step into the market to support the yen. But if we continue to see a gradual move up, I doubt they'll come in, but there's obviously a risk," said Carol Kong, a currency strategist at .

The and New Zealand dollar edged 0.02% lower each to $1.0752 and $0.6000, respectively.

Against a basket of currencies, the greenback was steady at 105.41, some distance away from a roughly one-month low it hit last week.

Investors continue to be focused on the pace and timing of Fed rate cuts that will likely drive currency moves, with the latest weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs data and an easing bias from the U.S. central bank cementing expectations that rates will likely be lower by the end of the year.

While President Neel Kashkari said on Tuesday it is too soon to declare that inflation has definitely stalled out, that did little to move the needle on market pricing for rate cuts.

"The market brushed off comments from Minneapolis Fed President Kashkari, who sits at the hawkish end of the spectrum and is a non-voter this year," said Rodrigo Catril, senior FX strategist at .

Elsewhere, sterling dipped 0.08% to $1.2499, ahead of the 's policy decision on Thursday, where focus will be on how soon the central bank could begin cutting rates.

Analysts expect the central bank to leave the door open to lower interest rates as early as June.

The Australian dollar fell 0.2% to $0.6585, pressured in part by a less hawkish outlook from the than anticipated after it held interest rates steady on Tuesday.

Source: Forex-Markets-Economic Times

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