A man uses a laptop, under an electronic board showing stock visualizations, inside a brokerage building, in Tokyo, Japan, March 20, 2023. REUTERS/Androniki Christodoulou/File photo
Sliding oil prices have also provided some relief to markets, with Brent crude futures at $84.50 a barrel, some $13 or 13.5 per cent cheaper than last week's 11-month high. Economists polled by Reuters' expect 170,000 U.S. jobs were added last month, and that the unemployment rate ticked lower to 3.7 per cent.
The dollar's 12-week run of gains against the euro is a record and has the common currency, at $1.0542, pinned close to an 11-month low. The dollar index is set to equal a record 12-week winning streak it made in 2014.
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