{"id":876,"date":"2018-07-26T07:12:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T07:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/?p=876"},"modified":"2018-07-26T07:12:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T07:12:47","slug":"dollar-weakens-to-two-week-low-as-trade-tension-eases-after-trump-juncker-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/dollar-weakens-to-two-week-low-as-trade-tension-eases-after-trump-juncker-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar Weakens to Two-Week Low as Trade Tension Eases After Trump-Juncker Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. dollar slipped to near a two-week low on Tuesday after the U.S. and the European Union agreed<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"aqPopupWrapper mediumTitle1 js-hover-me-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investing.com\/news\/economy-news\/trump-juncker-tout-deal-pulling-back-from-useu-trade-war-1545799\" id=\"5b59744266102\" class=\"js-hover-me\" hoverme=\"oal\" data-articleid=\"1545799\">steps to avoid trade war<\/a><\/span>, easing immediate global trade tensions.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump reached an agreement with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday to expand European imports of U.S. liquefied natural gas and soybeans and reduce industrial tariffs on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a big day, very big,\u201d Trump said at a joint statement with Juncker at the White House on Wednesday. The two sides had agreed to &#8220;work together toward zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsidies on non-auto industrial goods,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"aqPopupWrapper js-hover-me-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investing.com\/quotes\/us-dollar-index\" id=\"5b59744265ba1\" class=\"aqlink js-hover-me\" hoverme=\"aql\" data-pairid=\"8827\">U.S. dollar index<\/a><\/span>, which tracks the greenback against a basket of currencies, slipped 0.1% to 93.96 at 1:19AM ET (05:19 GMT). The index touched a fresh two-week low earlier in Asia trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. dollar slipped to near a two-week low on Tuesday after the U.S. and the European Union agreed\u00a0steps to avoid trade war, easing immediate global trade tensions. U.S. President Donald Trump reached an agreement with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday to expand European imports of U.S. liquefied<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/dollar-weakens-to-two-week-low-as-trade-tension-eases-after-trump-juncker-talk\/\"> Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homepage","category-latest-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}