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Dollar closes higher
NEW YORK. Dec 28 : The dollar closed higher in very quiet US trading, as most dealers continued to celebrate Christmas or prepare for New Year s Day reports Reuter.
"We re stuck in the middle of the day's range.' said Steve Flynn, a corporate dealer for First National Bank of Boston.
The dollar rose as European players closed out short positions ahead of the weekend, said Betsy Reetz. assistant Vice President at Union Bank of Switzerland in New York.
The US unit ended at 1.5183/93 mark, up from the opening of 1.5140/50 mark and Thursday's finish of 1.5075/85.
The dollar also closed at 125.85/95 yen. up marginally from the opening of 125.83/93 yen but down from Thursday's finish of 126.40/50 yen. The yen benefited from speculation that with US, president George Bush visiting Japan early next month and Japan's trade surplus continuing to widen, the US and Japan will seek a higher yen. said Earl Johnson. Vice President at 1 [arris Trust and Savings Bank.
Japanese officials already have publicly called for a higher yen. And a senior Bank of Japan official said Friday that the Bush administration seems to view the dollar’s recent fall as 'a necessary evil."
"A lot of people have been waiting for the yen to explode higher against the dollar. Maybe this is one final attempt for the year.' Reetz said.
As for the German currency. she said dollar-buying by a couple of large players pushed the US unit above 1.52 mark early tn the US. "But when that died off. the dollar fell back down.' Reetz said.
She and others emphasised that market sentiment remains markedly bearish toward the dollar, due to 'US economic weakness and wide Interest-rate differentials in favour of foreign currencies.
"Long-term players are holding on to their long-mark positions." Reetz said.
Technical traders are looking for the dollar to reach 1.4050 mark and then 1.4950 mark said Bank of Boston's Flynn. "And there's nothing to say we can't test the dollar's
low of early this year"— 1.4430 mark, he said.
Johnson of Harris noted that with the US economy so weak, there is talk that the Federal Reserve will have to reduce Interest rates further. "No one can find a good reason to buy dollars.' he said. Johnson predicted the US currency will fall below 1.50 mark next week.
Reetz sees the dollar trading in ranges of 1.4850-1.5350 mark and 124.00-126.50 yen next week.
Sterling closed Friday at -1.8737/47 dollar, down from the opening of 1.8778/88 dollar. and the Australian dollar at 76.05/15 US cent, up from 76.04/08 cent
The US dollar ended at 1.3515/20 Swiss franc, up from 1.3490/00 franc, and at 1.1603/08 Canadian dollar, unchanged from the opening.
Around midday. Morgan Guaranty Trust Co quoted the dollar at 18.1 per cent below its 1980-82 trade-weighted average, compared with 18.3 per cent below the average Thursday.