By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Amanda Cooper

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. greenback climbed to a six-week peak towards basket of currencies on Thursday, after information confirmed producer costs for January got here in larger than anticipated and jobless claims fell, suggesting the Federal Reserve should maintain financial coverage tight for a while to deliver down inflation.

The U.S. forex additionally hit a brand new six-week excessive towards the yen, euro, and Australian greenback within the wake of financial stories.

The U.S. producer value index bounced to 0.7%, larger than each the consensus forecast of 0.4% and the December quantity, which confirmed a drop of 0.2%.

U.S. jobless claims information additionally confirmed a resilient labor market, with claims of 194,000, in contrast with expectations of 200,000, based on a Reuters ballot.

“We had a trickle of knowledge significantly on the inflation entrance. The information runs have been constructive. Yields are creeping up,” mentioned Shaun Osborne, chief FX strategist, at Scotiabank in Toronto.

“So we’re seeing a little bit of a reprieve within the current softness within the greenback. The greenback is trying inclined for a rebound anyway. A number of the excellent news has already been priced into the euro the previous few weeks,” he added.

In late morning buying and selling, the was up 0.2% at 104.02, after earlier hitting a six-week excessive of 104.24.

In opposition to the yen, the U.S. greenback additionally hit a six-week peak, however was final little modified on the day at 134.19. Yen merchants are ready for a speech by Kazuo Ueda, the nominee to change into the Financial institution of Japan’s subsequent governor, at a affirmation listening to on the decrease home of parliament on Feb. 24.

The rate of interest futures market exhibits U.S. charges might peak shut to five.25% by July earlier than dropping to five.0% by the top of the yr.

Thursday’s information adopted robust financial numbers on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Knowledge from the U.S. Commerce Division confirmed on Wednesday that U.S. retail gross sales rebounded sharply in January after two-straight month-to-month declines

That got here only a day after U.S. inflation figures confirmed client costs slowing, however nonetheless sticky. Knowledge from earlier this month additionally confirmed that U.S. job development accelerated sharply in January, pointing to a resilient economic system.

Nonetheless, the query for market watchers is how properly can the economic system proceed to carry up, particularly as charges head a lot larger than many initially thought.

“The information is coming in robust and it’s main folks to cost out the ‘Armageddon-recession’ state of affairs that everybody was anticipating in the beginning of the yr, however I am undecided one CPI and one retail gross sales print is sufficient for everybody to assume all is ok and dandy with the economic system as soon as extra,” TraderX strategist Michael Brown mentioned.

The euro slipped 0.2% to $1.0671. Earlier within the session, Europe’s single forex fell to $1.0655, the bottom since Jan. 9. That mentioned, it’s nonetheless greater than 11% above late September’s 20-year low.

Sterling slid 0.3% to $1.2005, after having misplaced greater than 1% on Wednesday.

British inflation slowed greater than anticipated in January and there have been indicators that value pressures are cooling in elements of the economic system, akin to providers, that the Financial institution of England (BoE) watches intently.

The BoE has already indicated that it could cease elevating charges in March and Wednesday’s inflation information bolstered that view.

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Forex bid costs at 10:58AM (1558 GMT)

Description RIC Final U.S. Shut Pct Change YTD Pct Excessive Bid Low Bid

Earlier Change

Session

Greenback index 104.0200 103.8000 +0.22% 0.512% +104.2400 +103.5200

Euro/Greenback $1.0672 $1.0688 -0.16% -0.42% +$1.0723 +$1.0655

Greenback/Yen 134.2150 134.1600 +0.04% +2.37% +134.4600 +133.6050

Euro/Yen 143.22 143.39 -0.12% +2.09% +143.4400 +143.0600

Greenback/Swiss 0.9259 0.9238 +0.25% +0.15% +0.9271 +0.9215

Sterling/Greenback $1.2011 $1.2038 -0.22% -0.68% +$1.2074 +$1.1966

Greenback/Canadian 1.3457 1.3396 +0.46% -0.68% +1.3479 +1.3359

Aussie/Greenback $0.6875 $0.6907 -0.46% +0.86% +$0.6936 +$0.6841

Euro/Swiss 0.9881 0.9873 +0.08% -0.14% +0.9886 +0.9866

Euro/Sterling 0.8884 0.8884 +0.00% +0.45% +0.8910 +0.8871

NZ $0.6253 $0.6281 -0.42% -1.50% +$0.6309 +$0.6233

Greenback/Greenback

Greenback/Norway 10.2570 10.2090 +0.66% +4.71% +10.3090 +10.1565

Euro/Norway 10.9489 10.9083 +0.37% +4.34% +10.9870 +10.8780

Greenback/Sweden 10.4487 10.4135 +0.14% +0.39% +10.4945 +10.3734

Euro/Sweden 11.1516 11.1364 +0.14% +0.02% +11.1851 +11.1192