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The dollar rebounded from a more than seven-month low against a basket of currencies on Tuesday, led by gains versus the safe-haven yen, as investors' appetite for risk and higher-yielding assets improved with the rise in oil prices. Gains in oil also drove a rally in commodity-linked currencies such as the Australian and Canadian dollars. "It's a commodity kind of day," said John Doyle, director of markets at Tempus Consulting in Washington.
"Oil is now more than 50 percent stronger than it was at its low in February. That's boosting general sentiment overall and with that we're seeing a rally in commodity currencies such as the Canadian dollar, which is about 30 percent higher now from its low in January."
The US dollar, meanwhile, has generally benefited from the improvement in risk appetite especially against the safe-haven currencies such as the yen and Swiss franc. But the dollar's outlook remains tied to US interest rate expectations. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, fell to as low as 93.627, its lowest since August. It was last at 94.291, up 0.4 percent.
Rabobank currency strategist Jane Foley in London said the dollar's recent sell-off looked a little "overdone". The dollar strengthened 0.6 percent versus the yen to 108.54 yen, having hit a 1-1/2-year low of 107.64 on Monday. The yen in the first three months of the year posted its strongest quarter since late 2009. The euro, meanwhile, fell 0.5 percent against the dollar to $1.1352, after earlier hitting a six-month high of $1.1464. The Australian dollar rose 0.4 percent to US $0.7628, while the New Zealand dollar gained 0.2 percent to US $0.6874.

Copyright Reuters, 2016

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