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FOREX-Dollar rebounds further, kiwi tumbles on rate-cut bets

Published 08/12/2015, 03:10 am
Updated 08/12/2015, 03:20 am
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* Dollar recovers broadly after U.S. jobs data, oil fall

* Kiwi hit by speculation of interest rate cut this week

* Falling oil prices hurt Norwegian crown (Updates market action, changes dateline, previous LONDON)

By Richard Leong

NEW YORK, Dec 7 (Reuters) - The dollar rose broadly on Monday on expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve is on track to raise interest rates next week in the wake of a solid November jobs report.

The New Zealand dollar and Norwegian crown were big losers to the greenback as commodity prices tumbled again and traders reckoned central banks would embark on more policy stimulus to help their economies.

"It's pretty much a done deal they will move," said Charles St-Arnaud, currency strategist at Nomura Securities International in New York, referring to the Fed which holds a policy meeting on Dec. 15-16.

U.S. interest rate futures implied traders are pricing in about a 78 percent chance that U.S. policymakers would raise rates for the first time in nine years next week, according to CME Group's FedWatch program.

The greenback climbed for a second day after last Thursday's stunning 3 percent fall against the euro, after the European Central Bank delivered less stimulus than the market expected.

The euro was down 0.4 percent at $1.0845 EUR= , while the dollar edged up about 0.1 percent to 123.23 yen JPY= .

While the greenback gained a third of a percent against a basket of currencies, it surged 1.5 percent against the New Zealand dollar NZD=D4 to $0.6647 ahead of Wednesday's meeting of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Another cut in interest rates there is on the table but, many say, is not priced in by markets.

"Our view is they will cut, and you can see that it's under pressure this morning," said Dominic Bunning, a strategist with HSBC in London.

The dollar was up 1.7 percent against the Norwegian crown at 8.6686 crowns NOK= as Brent oil futures in London fell to near seven-year lows on OPEC's disagreement on output cuts and the dollar's rebound that made it more expensive to buy crude globally. O/R

Brent futures for January 2016 delivery LCOc1 were down 3 percent at $41.50 a barrel.

The drop in oil prices knocked the Canadian dollar to its weakest level against the greenback in 11 years. The loonie was last down 1 percent at C$1.3497 CAD=D3 . urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N13W0VH

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