(Reuters) -The Russian rouble weakened past the symbolic threshold of 100 to the dollar before recovering slightly in early trade on Tuesday, weighed down by foreign currency outflows and the country’s shrinking current account surplus. The rouble’s last tumble into triple digits in August led the Bank of Russia to…

Investing.com – The euro suffered a brutal September selloff that continued Monday following fresh signs of economic trouble in Europe just as experts warn that the single currency could hit parity with the dollar in the coming months as U.S. interest rates remain higher for longer. fell 0.79% to $1.0487 after data…

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s key economic ministers kept investors wary of currency market intervention, warning that authorities were watching with a “strong sense of urgency” as the yen slid closer to the 150 per dollar level on Monday, its weakest in nearly a year. Last September, Japanese authorities…

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar began the last quarter of the year in the ascendant on Monday due to prospects of U.S. interest rates staying higher for longer, and the yen’s slide to a near one-year low put traders on watch for intervention by Japanese authorities. Currency…

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday Japanese authorities have set no “defence line” in dealing with currencies, while also warning the yen’s weakness had progressed “quite a bit”. Suzuki reiterated that they would not rule out any option if moves become excessive. The…

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The yen’s slide to the cusp of 150 per dollar has put investors on high alert for the risk of intervention. But, Japanese authorities could find propping up their currency both difficult to achieve and hard to justify. At its core, the yen’s 3%…

By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) -The ‘dollar smile’ can be a blessing for Wall Street, or a curse. Right now, with the dollar’s boom being driven by a destabilizing surge in U.S. bond yields, heightened uncertainty over global growth and rapidly deteriorating investor sentiment, it is definitely the latter.…

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar’s share of global currency reserves reported to the International Monetary Fund was 58.9% in the second quarter, unchanged from the first three months of the year, IMF data showed on Friday. Claims in U.S. dollars rose 0.8% to $6.576 trillion in…

By Karen Brettell and Amanda Cooper NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar was on track to post its biggest quarterly gain in a year on Friday and gains for the 11th consecutive week as investors priced in the likelihood of a still solid economy and higher rates for longer. The…

Investing.com– Most Asian currencies moved little on Friday, but stemmed some recent losses as the dollar came off 10-month highs and Treasury yields stalled before key U.S. inflation data due later in the day. Regional currencies were battered by a spike in the dollar and Treasury yields this week, after…