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Yen, Swiss Franc Gain On Safe-Haven Bids As Russia-Ukraine Tension Rises – Reuters

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February 17, 2022
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NEW YORK, Feb 17 (Reuters) – The safe-haven Japanese yen and Swiss franc climbed to two-week peaks against the U.S. dollar on Thursday, on worries about escalating Russia-Ukraine tensions that could have economic repercussions worldwide.

In afternoon trading, the dollar slid to 114.845 yen , the lowest since early February. It was last down 0.5% at 114.93 yen.

Against the Swiss currency, the greenback fell to 0.9189 francs , the weakest since Feb. 3. The dollar last changed hands at 0.92 francs, down 0.2%.

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“Safe havens are outperforming as today’s geopolitical development dampened hopes for a diplomatic deal to avert military action around Ukraine,” said Joe Manimbo, senior market analyst, at Western Union Business Solutions in Washington.

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday there was now every indication Russia was planning to invade Ukraine in the next few days and preparing a pretext to justify it, after Ukrainian forces and pro-Moscow rebels traded fire in eastern Ukraine. read more

Russia also accused Biden of fueling tension and released a strongly worded letter that said Washington was ignoring its security demands and threatened unspecified “military-technical measures.”

Fears of a Russia invasion pushed U.S. stocks sharply lower and spurred bids for safe-haven Treasuries.

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has superseded concerns about the Federal Reserve’s plans to tighten monetary policy, starting at the March meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee. But the market has been divided over the size of the expected interest rate increase.

Last week, with the latest U.S. consumer prices data showing the largest annual gain in 40 years, rate futures market had priced in a roughly 70% chance of a half-percentage rate rise in March. That has come down to 37% on Thursday,

The more likely scenario is for a quarter-point tightening by the Fed.

That said, even with the Fed’s hawkish shift, the dollar has remained broadly unchanged.

“We think this is largely because other central banks’ hawkish shifts have also pushed up the yields of long-dated government bonds in other developed markets, resulting in a smaller shift in relative yields,” said Jonathan Petersen, markets economist, at Capital Economics.

The dollar index so far this year has gained just 0.2%, but was down 0.2% versus the yen.

In contrast, the U.S. Treasury 2-year yield, which reflects interest rate expectations and is correlated with dollar/yen, has surged about 74 basis points .

In afternoon trading, the dollar index was flat at 95.8090.

Some commodity currencies, which are sensitive to risk sentiment, fell, with the Australian dollar slipping 0.1% to US$0.7188 . The Norwegian crown dropped as well against the dollar, which rose 0.4% to 8.915 .

In cryptocurrencies, bitcoin , which moves in tandem with other risk assets, was last down 6.7% at $40,996.

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Currency bid prices at 3:42PM (2042 GMT)

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Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss; Additional reporting by Saikat Chatterjee in London ; Editing by Kim Coghill, Will Dunham, Mark Potter and Richard Chang

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