{"id":102841,"date":"2020-08-05T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/?p=102841"},"modified":"2020-08-05T09:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:25:07","slug":"103772-dollar-weakens-stimulus-clarity-awaited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/103772-dollar-weakens-stimulus-clarity-awaited\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar Weakens, Stimulus Clarity Awaited"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Dollar&#8217;s bounce in August threatened<\/li>\n<li>Euro, Yen off recent lows<\/li>\n<li>Aussie awaits RBA policy announcement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dollar failed to sustain the bounce back on Tuesday as investors weighed the mixed signals on the US government stimulus talks along with the continuous rise in coronavirus deaths.<\/p>\n<p>July witnessed the US dollar recording the worst month in a decade, but the currency had a better start in August, going up as high as 1.1695 per Euro on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the greenback slid to 93.574 in the dollar index &#8211; measured against a basket of currencies, below 93.997 levels traded on Monday. It also went down to 1.1755 against the Euro.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese Yen and Australian dollar also gained strength against the dollar, with the Yen recovering some overnight losses to trade at 106.08 a dollar and the latter staying at 0.7117 a dollar while awaiting RBA announcement.<\/p>\n<h3>Stimulus Clarity Awaited<\/h3>\n<p>Democrats and White House are hopeful of finding a solution to the differences among them about the coronavirus relief bill. Still, the already expired 600-dollar-per-week unemployment benefit is having a stickling effect on the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Though the ISM manufacturing index gave a better than expected headline number, the employment index disappointed with contractionary 44.3 while output remains far below pre-coronavirus levels. Analysts are not expecting the recovery to accelerate without the virus under control.<\/p>\n<h3>RBA Rate Decision<\/h3>\n<p>More cases are being reported in Europe and Melbourne; the second-largest in Australia declared a curfew to contain the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>It dashed hope of RBA sounding a bit more upbeat on the economic outlook in its policy decision.<\/p>\n<p>Observers expect less monetary action but more stimulus on the fiscal front; they consider 0.7085 AUD\/USD as the worst-case scenario.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere has been some discussion about the RBA cutting rates given the shutdowns in Melbourne, but this is crazy talk,\u201d said Chris Weston, head of research at Melbourne broker Pepperstone.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe may get some increased level of concern,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the support needed right now is not more easing of monetary policy, but fiscal,\u201d and does not expect the Aussie to stay below $0.7085 if it dips that far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sterling traded at 1.3069 against the dollar, and the escalated tensions between the US and China kept Yuan below 7-per-dollar at 6.9814 in offshore trade.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"\" style=\"border-color:#000061;border-radius:3px;max-width:none\"><div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#071894;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px\">USD Index Today - last 180 days<\/div><div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a8538a9bff2dc02dff4e1fea1c61c518.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"348\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a8538a9bff2dc02dff4e1fea1c61c518.png 800w, https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a8538a9bff2dc02dff4e1fea1c61c518-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a8538a9bff2dc02dff4e1fea1c61c518-768x334.png 768w, https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a8538a9bff2dc02dff4e1fea1c61c518-696x303.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 75%; line-height: 1.5;\"><div class=\"su-expand su-expand-collapsed su-expand-link-style-default no-margin\" data-height=\"0\"><div class=\"su-expand-content su-u-trim\" style=\"color:#333333;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden\">Currency Index charts show the <strong>strength of a single currency<\/strong> based on a basket of foreign currencies. This is done using a weighted mean (an average) of the 5 largest routes from that source currency and their daily FX rates. You can explore <a style=\"color:#0088FF\" href=\"\/exchange-rate\/\">live exchange rates here<\/a>.<\/div><div class=\"su-expand-link su-expand-link-more\" style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" style=\"color:#0088FF;border-color:#0088FF\"><span style=\"border-color:#0088FF\">What does this show? <\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-expand-link su-expand-link-less\" style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" style=\"color:#0088FF;border-color:#0088FF\"><span style=\"border-color:#0088FF\">Show less<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dollar&#8217;s bounce in August threatened Euro, Yen off recent lows Aussie awaits RBA policy announcement Dollar failed to sustain the bounce back on Tuesday as investors weighed the mixed signals on the US government stimulus talks along with the continuous rise in coronavirus deaths. July witnessed the US dollar recording the worst month in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163946612,"featured_media":5647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1547,1379,2675,1381],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aud","8":"category-gbp","9":"category-jpy","10":"category-usd"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dollar Weakens, Stimulus Clarity Awaited - Currency Live<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/103772-dollar-weakens-stimulus-clarity-awaited\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Stelian Olar\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/103772-dollar-weakens-stimulus-clarity-awaited\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/103772-dollar-weakens-stimulus-clarity-awaited\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Stelian Olar\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c83637dd6dc82bcaadbc8b6c994d1186\"},\"headline\":\"Dollar Weakens, Stimulus Clarity Awaited\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-05T11:11:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-05T13:25:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/103772-dollar-weakens-stimulus-clarity-awaited\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":433,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/103772-dollar-weakens-stimulus-clarity-awaited\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/08\\\/100663-gbp-usd-pound-lacks-drivers.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"AUD\",\"GBP\",\"JPY\",\"USD\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2020\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/103772-dollar-weakens-stimulus-clarity-awaited\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/103772-dollar-weakens-stimulus-clarity-awaited\\\/\",\"name\":\"Dollar Weakens, Stimulus Clarity Awaited - 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