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Dollar Holds Near Two-Month High

The dollar index, which measures the currency against six key rivals, stuck close to an almost two-month top touched overnight, as traders further pared bets for US rate cuts this year after last week’s unexpectedly strong payrolls data.

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Japan’s Inflation Rises 2.8% in September

Japan’s wholesale price inflation edged up in September, due mainly to higher prices of everyday food items such as rice.

The Bank of Japan said the preliminary Producer Price Index was up 2.8 percent from a year earlier, a slightly greater increase …