SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar held above a recent three-year low against a basket of major currencies on Tuesday, with traders turning their attention to U.S. President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech and a Federal Reserve policy meeting for catalysts

The dollar rose 0.1 percent against a basket of six major currencies to 89.430, having pulled up from a low of around 88.43 set last week, its weakest level since December 2014.

the highest since April 2014, and last stood at 2.712 percent

Analysts said a renewed rise in U.S. bond yields this week lent(make) some support to the dollar.

The euro eased 0.1 percent to $1.2373, edging away from a three-year high of $1.2538 touched last week.
The low-yielding yen is a popular funding currency for investments in higher-yielding assets, and therefore tends to benefit when investors trim their risk exposure.

according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified discussing private information

The struggling dollar is on track to post its biggest monthly decline in nearly two years as investors ramp up bets that likely higher U.S. interest rates wouldn't support the greenback against the backdrop of a pickup in global growth.

The dollar index is set for its biggest monthly drop since March 2016, and is hovering just above a three-year low of 88.438 hit after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin endorsed a weaker dollar to help American exports last week

 Investors should be carefully watching this as interest rate differentials are still a big driver of currencies and the dollar still leads the pack.

The dollar remains the world's dominant reserve currency for global central banks, with total allocated global FX reserves in dollars more than double of that in euros

Though reserve growth in euros for allocated reserves has outstripped that of the dollar in the past five out of the eight quarters, in times of risk aversion and selloff, the greenback is still a safe haven


For example, the share of euros among global central banks reserves is still below a late 2009 peak of 28 percent

Markets have tended to preempt interest rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve, with the dollar gaining ahead of tightening cycles with protracted weakness seen in the middle and the end of the cycle.

Ericsson (BS:ERICAs) sank 7.6 percent after the telecom equipment maker reported a deeper than expected loss

Electrolux led European gainers, up 5.3 percent after the home appliance maker reported a bigger than expected rise in fourth-quarter profit

It also helps China narrow the gap between its economy’s status as world No. 2 and its currency’s marginal role in the global financial system

Overnight, crude oil prices settled higher shrugging off data showing US domestic oil supplies rose for the first time in 11 weeks and production rose above 10 million barrels per day in nearly half a century

bitcoin drops, on track for largest monthly decline in four years

but those holdings still remains far below even recent highs

according to data compiled by Bloomberg

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Germany's Software AG names Sanjay Brahmawar as new CEO

take up the reins

no press conference is scheduled to follow

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after its results beat(over) expectations

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driving the shares up 4.4 percent

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That was the biggest increase in US stockpiles in ten months

Gasoline inventories – one of the products that crude is refined into

a steeper fall than the 1.454 million barrels expected.

while supplies of distillate – the class of fuels that includes diesel and heating oil

That level brings the US closer to world's top producers Saudi Arabia and Russia

european stocks snap three day, montly rising/ losing streak

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