Yen, Pound Hit Strongest in Three Months on Powell Remarks on Fed Slowing

Yen, Pound Hit Strongest in Three Months on Powell Remarks on Fed Slowing
Examples of Japanese yen banknotes are displayed at a factory of the National Printing Bureau producing Bank of Japan notes at a media event about a new series of banknotes scheduled to be introduced in 2024, in Tokyo, Japan, on Nov. 21, 2022. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
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LONDON—The dollar weakened to three-month-lows against the yen and the pound on Thursday, after comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell that U.S. rate hikes could be scaled back “as soon as December,” but the euro failed to climb past a major resistance level.

The aggressive pace of U.S. Federal Reserve rate increases this year has sent the dollar soaring, thanks to higher U.S. benchmark yields and fears the central bank would push the U.S. economy into recession in its attempts to combat inflation.