Monday, March 5, 2012

Euro higher against dollar ahead of Fed meeting

The euro edged higher against the dollar on Tuesday, recovering some of the ground lost the day before, ahead of a two-day meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve that is expected to leave benchmark interest rates unchanged again.

The 16-nation euro bought $1.3886 in morning European trading, up from the $1.3865 it bought late Monday in New York. The dollar bought 95.01 Japanese yen, down slightly from 95.93 yen in New York late Monday.

The British pound slipped to $1.6246 compared with $1.6344 the night before.

Analysts expect the Fed to keep the target range for its bank lending rate between zero and 0.25 percent through the rest of this year and …

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