Busy Data Release Day in Spite of U.S. MLK Holiday Closure

On this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the dollar strengthened 0.8% against the Japanese yen, 0.5% versus the Australian dollar, 0.3% relative to the Swiss franc, 0.2% vis-a-vis the Canadian dollar and sterling, but only 0.1% against the euro. Share prices rose 0.9% in Japan but just 0.2% in Taiwan and China. (On Saturday, Taiwanese […]