Forex | Forex | Wall Street down; Dollar fueled by consumer confidence weak data (30/06/2009 14:32:00)

Wall Street down; Dollar fueled by consumer confidence weak data

Fxstreet.com (Barcelona) - Dollar has been fueled by the surprisingly decline in US Consumer Confidence today's data and the Greenback is rising further against its major rivals. European morning data have helped USD too with the risk aversion arriving at the town. US market is declining after its US opening bell.

Consumer confidence has posted a surprisingly drop to 49.3 in June from 54.9 in May, a data below of 55.1 pts expected by market. Chicago's PMI is continuing in the negative field with a reading of 39.9 in April, despite improves from 34.9 posted in March.

Dow Jones is falling 0.84% so far today, losing its 8.500 level, S&P 500 drops 1.00% and Nasdaq decline 0.61% on the day.

USD/JPY is rising 0.20% so far today after recovering from 95.30 in the early European morning to the current 96.30/40. USD/CHF climbs to 1.0880 in the last hour after testing daily low levels.

GBP/USD is falling sharp and fast. The pair dropped below 1.6520 and fell to 1.6426 in a few minutes, achieving a fresh intra-day low. During the Asian session the pair reached an 8-month high at 1.6745, since then it has accumulated a loss of more than 300 pips

EUR/USD has collapsed to levels close to 1.4000 from 1.4147 in the last two hours, the pair is posting 0.57% daily losses from opening price to the current 1.4015/25.
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