The US Dollar rises further as market participants see Donald Trump winning Presidential elections this year. Investors expect that the Fed cut interest rates twice this year. Fed Williams and Bostic are scheduled to speak on Friday. The US Dollar , which tracks the Greenback’s value against six major currencies, extends its upside to near 104.30 in Friday’s European session after a sharp recovery from an almost four-month low of 103.65 this week.
It is the most heavily traded currency in the world, accounting for over 88% of all global foreign exchange turnover, or an average of $6.6 trillion in transactions per day, according to data from 2022. Following the second world war, the USD took over from the British Pound as the world’s reserve currency. For most of its history, the US Dollar was backed by Gold, until the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1971 when the Gold Standard went away.