MW:Dollar falls more, bonds lower after jobless data
By Deborah Levine
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The dollar fell further and Treasury prices stayed down on Thursday after a report said U.S. first-time claims for jobless benefits rose to 367,000 in the latest week, a little less than economists expected. The ICE dollar index DXY -0.30% , which measures the greenback against a basket of six currencies, fell to 79.605 from 79.967 in late trading the previous session. The euro EURUSD +0.5889% rose to $1.2981, from $1.2953 before the data and $1.2903 Wednesday. It extended gains after the European Central Bank kept interest rates on hold and as ECB President Mario Draghi began his monthly press conference. Yields on 10-year notes {10_year], which move inversely to prices, stayed up 2 basis points to 1.64%. Coming up later in the session, the Federal Reserve will release minutes of its last meeting, when it launched a new mortgage-debt buying program.
