Dollar depreciates against foreign currencies

Dollar exchange rate on Thursday reduced by statistics from the United States. This is according to the auction, reports Prime. As of 6.35, the dollar index (the dollar to a basket of six currencies of countries - major US trading partners) decreased by 0.19% to 97.74 points. Euro against the dollar rose to 1.0980 dollars per euro from 1.0970 dollars per euro in the previous closing, the dollar against the yen dropped to 118.983 yen from 119.493 yen per dollar.

On Wednesday, the published data on orders for durable goods in the US in February. Orders unexpectedly fell by 1.4% on a monthly basis, after rising 2% a month earlier, while analysts had expected growth rate of 0.4%. "It is already clear that the US data fall short of expectations, and this is already a couple of months," - said in an interview with Bloomberg chief currency strategist at HSBC in Hong Kong Dominic Bunning.

Growth of the euro against the dollar maintains statistics from Germany. According to the research institute IFO, the index of the business climate in the country in March rose to 107.9 points from 106.8 points in February. Analysts had expected the index to rise to 107.3 points.
The index of the current economic situation in Germany rose to 112 points from 111.3 points in February. Indicator completely coincided with analysts' expectations. The economic expectations index rose to 103.9 points from 102.5 points a month earlier. Analysts expected to increase to 103 points.