{"id":66673,"date":"2026-10-16T11:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=66673"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:16:04","slug":"dollar-heads-for-first-weekly-decline-in-five-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2026\/10\/16\/dollar-heads-for-first-weekly-decline-in-five-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar heads for first weekly decline in five weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The dollar headed for its first weekly fall in five weeks on Friday, lifting the euro from a 17-month low as wobbles in AI investment and a drop in US yields put the brakes on recent gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moves in the Asia morning were slight, leaving the dollar down 0.2 percent this week at 158.13 yen and shedding about 0.1 percent to $1.1210 per euro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dollar index, which measures the US currency against six major peers, was at 102.07, set for a 0.14 percent drop in the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sterling was steady at $1.3270 for a weekly rise of 0.3 percent, helped \u200bby data showing Britain&#8217;s economy unexpectedly grew 0.1 percent in August. The New Zealand dollar looked likely to scratch out a weekly gain of 0.1 percent at $0.5621.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Australian dollar was flat at $0.6921 and an outlier in heading for a fall of 0.8 percent on the dollar this week, after a surprisingly soft jobs report on Thursday had markets paring back expectations for another rise in interest rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dollar headed for its first weekly fall in five weeks on Friday, lifting the euro from a 17-month low as wobbles in AI investment and a drop in US yields put the brakes on recent gains. Moves in the Asia morning were slight, leaving the dollar down 0.2 percent this week at 158.13 yen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":66674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66675,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66673\/revisions\/66675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}