On Monday, the dollar showed an increase on all fronts. The reason for this was another excessive rate increase at a monetary policy meeting of the Federal Reserve System this week. This was reported by Reuters.
However, on Wednesday, the FRS will announce an assessment of the impact of its policy tightening and may signal a slowdown in the growth of interest rates. This could result in limiting the growth of the dollar.
The FRS is expected to increase the benchmark overnight interest rate by 75 basis points to a range of 3.75% to 4.00%. But for the December meeting, for which the Federal Funds futures were booked on Monday, there is a 55 percent probability of a 50 basis point rate increase. By comparison, that probability was 67% last Friday.
Amo Sahota, executive director of the San Francisco-based consulting firm Klarity FX thinks that the dollar is consolidating in general and a lot of the news is already factoring into the price of the dollar.
He added that if the dollar rises, there will be relatively little growth. According to him, there is depletion in the trade.