Dollar kept aloft as another Trump deadline looms
War in the Middle East and the closure of the Gulf's chokepoint at the Hope for some sort of deal or breakthrough has held off further dollar buying through Easter, but markets are jittery and there are few big sellers of dollars ahead of U.S. President Donald Trumps's 8 p.m. Eastern Time (midnight GMT) deadline. The yen traded at 159.67 to the dollar, not far from multi-decade troughs and levels that drew intervention in 2024. The euro bought $1.1539 and sterling $1.3235, a little bit above multi-month ...