The dollar is steady and largely unchanged against a basket of currencies this morning.
A report on private jobs in the US was released yesterday, showing that private businesses hired 534,000 workers in November, beating market expectations of a 525,000 rise. This comes ahead of the non-farm payrolls report tomorrow, which is expected to show that 550,000 jobs were added to the US economy in November.
Today, several Federal Reserve officials will make speeches following Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony before Congress.
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