(New York) The U.S. dollar stabilized on Friday near its lowest since the summer, despite strong U.S. jobs numbers that briefly rebounded in the session.
Around 2:50 p.m. (Eastern time), the greenback was trading at 1.0517 euros (+0.02%), very close to its lowest level since June reached at the very beginning of the session at 1.0545 dollar.
During the day, boosted by more job creations in the United States than expected, which could push the Fed to continue its monetary policy tightening, the greenback had taken 0.52% to 1.0466 dollars for a euro.
The US currency then stabilized also against other currencies such as the yen at 134.62 yen (-0.53%) – while it gained 0.13% against the Japanese currency after the employment figures — or the pound sterling at 1.2267 dollars for one pound (0.16%).
In November, 263,000 jobs were created in the United States, according to the Labor Department, well above the 200,000 that were expected by analysts, while for October the figures were revised upwards to 284,000 jobs .
These figures “were surprising”, commented Edward Moya of Oanda for AFP. “We are far from being able to say ‘mission accomplished’ in the fight against inflation,” he added as a slowdown in the labor market is sought by the American Central Bank (Fed) to bring down power buying and inflation.
Victoria Scholar, analyst at Interactive Investor, relativized the importance of these data which are “a positive point in a weakening US economy”.
Paul Ashworth, an analyst at Capital Economics, also believed that “this does not change our forecasts that inflation will fall faster than the Fed believes”. “We still think its officials are going to have to slow the pace of rate hikes.”
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) has signaled that after four sharp 75 basis point rate hikes, its December meeting could be an opportunity to move to lower rate hikes of 50 basis points.
Its fight against inflation seems to be starting to bear fruit: the rise in the PCE consumer price index, favored by the Fed, published on Thursday, slowed in October to 6.0% over one year against 6 .3% in September.