US Dollar Weekly Forecast: The Dollar had every reason to rally. Why didn’t it?
Joy can’t last forever, can it?

Joy can’t last forever, can it?
A dreadful week saw the US Dollar (USD) navigate choppy waters, going from the area of three-week tops to multi-day lows in hours and eventually leaving the scales tilted toward the negative side. Who to blame? The bond market? The MoF-BoJ duo? Unabated geopolitical tensions? The Fed?
Canada lost nearly 42K jobs in August against forecasts for a 15K gain, and the unemployment rate stayed at 6.4% anyway. Wages grew 2% on the year, the slowest since November 2017 outside the pandemic years.
The EUR/USD pair posted a modest comeback after falling in the last week of August, finishing the week just above the 1.1600 level.
After declining sharply in the first half of the week, Gold (XAU/USD) managed to erase its losses, reflecting the changes in the market pricing of the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) possible interest rate decision at the next meeting.
The Japanese Yen (JPY) experienced a sudden burst higher after falling back below the 160.00 psychological mark against the US Dollar (USD) earlier this week amid a more hawkish repricing of Bank of Japan (BoJ) rate hike expectations.