No news is good news for the US dollar, that continues riding the hike. And in this case, a better than expected jobs figure is always welcome: 271K in jobless claims. Not all is perfect of course: the Philly Fed Manufacturing Index dropped to negative ground at -5.9 points and the US current account came out at a slightly wider deficit than expected: 124 billion.
Nevertheless, the greenback has awakened.
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