{"id":475955,"date":"2022-03-16T09:21:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T03:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=475955"},"modified":"2022-03-16T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T04:08:08","slug":"dollar-falls-as-lower-oil-prices-ukraine-talks-boost-euro-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dollar-falls-as-lower-oil-prices-ukraine-talks-boost-euro-pound\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar falls as lower oil prices, Ukraine talks boost euro, pound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\/MILAN (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. dollar lost value to the euro and other major currencies on Tuesday after oil prices fell on indications of COVID-crimped economic growth in China amid ongoing talks to halt the Russia-Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar index against major currencies fell nearly 0.4% to 98.735 but was still up nearly 3% since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.<\/p>\n<p>The euro and British pound each gained about 0.5% on the greenback, which also lost 0.2% against the Japanese yen.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures dropped as much as 8% after concerns over supply were eased by ongoing Ukraine ceasefire talks and as rising COVID-19 cases in China suggested slower economic growth and less demand for oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\/MILAN (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. dollar lost value to the euro and other major currencies on Tuesday after oil prices fell on indications of COVID-crimped economic growth in China amid ongoing talks to halt the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The dollar index against major currencies fell nearly 0.4% to 98.735 but was still up nearly 3% since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. The euro and British pound each gained about 0.5% on the greenback, which also lost 0.2% against the Japanese yen. Brent crude futures dropped as much as 8% after concerns over supply were eased by ongoing Ukraine ceasefire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}