Dollar inches up as focus turns to Powell speech
Feb 7 (Reuters) -The dollar hovered near one-month highs on Tuesday ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that will be scoured by investors for any signals on how high U.S. interest rates may go this year.
The dollar index =USD, which measures the performance of the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, erased session losses of up to 0.2% and edged up 0.1% to103.68, holding around its highest since early January.
Investors will be looking for Powell's take on the labour market in a speech at the Economic Club of Washington due later in the day, after a sharp rise in jobs growth last week punctured hopes for a tempered Fed.
"The stronger U.S. data has clearly challenged market expectations for further U.S. dollar weakness in the near-term and for the Fed to soon bring an end to their rate hike cycle," said Lee Hardman, MUFG senior currency analyst.
U.S. interest-rate futures 0#FF: show that markets are expecting the Fed funds rate to peak just above 5.1% by June, compared with expectations of a peak below 5% prior to Friday's jobs report. FEDWATCH
Friday's jobs report wrongfooted traders who were banking on an imminent pause in the Fed's rate-hike cycle, and gave the U.S. currency a leg up.
The euro EUR=EBS fell 0.2% to $1.07025, having hit its lowest since Jan. 9 earlier in the day.
"(Powell) has the chance to walk back some of the commentary that he made on Wednesday last week that prompted this dovish read," said Simon Harvey, head of FX analysis at Monex, but added that he does not expect any new messaging from Powell.
"The Fed still has some progress to make, there are signs of positivity in terms of the disinflationary pressures that are in the pipeline, but there is still a labour market problem."
Sterling GBP=D3 was last 0.3% down against the dollar at $1.1982, after tumbling to a one-month low of $1.1974 in the previous session.
Investors are looking for further commentary from central bankers this week following what was viewed as a dovish outcome of Bank of England's meeting last week.
The Australian dollar AUD=D3 was up 0.6% at $0.6924 after having surged as much as 1% after the country's central bank raised its cash rate by 25 basis points and said more increases would be needed, a more hawkish policy tilt than many had expected.
The Japanese yen JPY=EBS attempted to make back some of the losses over the last two sessions, with the dollar-yen pair down 0.4% at 132.14.
It moved away from Monday's one-month low of 132.90 per dollar hit after a report that Japan's government has sounded out Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Masayoshi Amamiya - considered by markets as more dovish than other contenders - to succeed incumbent Haruhiko Kuroda as central bank governor.
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Reporting by Rae Wee and Susan Mathew; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman, Kenneth Maxwell and Arun Koyyur
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