{"id":1600994,"date":"2022-08-11T11:25:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1600994"},"modified":"2022-08-11T11:25:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:25:32","slug":"dollar-slides-further-after-u-s-inflation-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dollar-slides-further-after-u-s-inflation-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar slides further after U.S. inflation surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdollar-slides-further-after-u-s-inflation-surprise%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1600994&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Iain Withers<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013     The dollar lost further ground versus other major currencies on Thursday, after traders reined in bets on an aggressive interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve after softer-than-expected U.S. inflation data the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar index remained on the back foot in early European trading hours, slipping 0.2% to 105.010, after recording its biggest daily fall in five months, of 1%, the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>Data on Wednesday showed U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in July, month on month, after advancing 1.3% in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday\u2019s data gave hope that inflation has peaked and the Fed will need to raise rates less sharply to keep inflation under control,\u201d currency analysts at Commerzbank said in a note.<\/p>\n<p>Traders pared bets the Fed would raise rates by 75 basis points for a third straight time at its September policy meeting, and now see a half-point increase as the more likely option.<\/p>\n<p>Fed policymakers sought to temper any expectations of significantly looser policy, with Neal Kashkari telling a conference on Wednesday that the central bank was \u201cfar, far away from declaring victory\u201d on inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile yesterday\u2019s data clearly reduces the risk of further aggressive Fed action (+75bps) and therefore helps curtail US dollar demand, we equally see it as unlikely that this data alone will prompt much further US dollar selling from here,\u201d currency analysts at MUFG said in a note.<\/p>\n<p>The euro and Japanese yen were among the currencies to benefit from the dollar\u2019s weakness and both added to the previous day\u2019s gains.<\/p>\n<p>The euro was last up a quarter of a percent at $1.03255.<\/p>\n<p>The yen gained 0.2% to 132.615 yen per dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling was broadly flat versus the dollar at $1.22250, after gaining more than 1% the previous day.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Iain Withers; 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