
Dollar Index Weakens Around 99.00 in Friday's Asian Session
The US dollar index is losing ground for a third consecutive day, trading around 99.00 during Asian hours on Friday.
USD/JPY currently trades near the 155.75 region in Friday’s Asian session, nearly unchanged on the day.

USD/JPY currently trades near the 155.75 region in Friday’s Asian session, nearly unchanged on the day. That is the session stamp.
Waller’s hold-if-progress lean keeps US yields and the dollar on the back foot. On the yen side, a BoJ hike is fully priced for the 17–18 September meeting on that page, with suspected intervention color still in the mix. Soft Fed odds plus tighter BoJ pricing support the yen near August highs.
August US NFP is still ahead. A hot US labour print that lifts Fed hike odds is the falsifier for this yen bid.
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The US dollar index is losing ground for a third consecutive day, trading around 99.00 during Asian hours on Friday.

AUD/USD trades at 0.7200, up 0.44%, on the Waller Thursday stamp. Soft USD after Waller’s hold-if-progress lean.

The euro trades on a flat note around 1.1625 during the early Asian session on Friday, holding above 1.1600.