Dollar creeps higher ahead of U.S. jobs report
- #XAUUSD futures closed lower, giving back earlier gains seen on the back of employment data from the Labor Department that revealed the U.S. economy created a lot fewer jobs than expected in September
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has recruited former Tesco boss Dave Lewis as an advisor, tasking him with fixing the country's supply chain problems that have hit the economy
- The #DXY edged higher versus major peers but within a narrow range as traders awaited clues from the U.S. non-farm payrolls report on the pace of Federal Reserve policy normalization
- #USDJPY rose 0.5%
- #WTIUSD gained 0.9%