* Oil pares gains as Trump okays emergency oil reserve use
* Safe-haven yen, Swiss franc trim initial increases
* Currencies of oil exporters Norway, Canada gain
* Short-covering seen lifting greenback before Fed meeting
* Graphic: World FX rates in 2019 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh
(Updates market action, adds quote, graphic)
By Richard Leong
NEW YORK, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The dollar rose against a
basket of currencies on Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump's
authorization of the use of an emergency crude stockpile in
response to attacks on Saudi Arabian refining facilities cooled
a surge in oil prices.
The Japanese yen and Swiss franc, both traditional
safe-haven currencies, gave up much of their initial gains with
a pullback in crude prices and anxiety about a disruption in
global energy supply, analysts said.
Still, investors remained nervous about another attack,
which underpinned demand for currencies of oil exporters such as
Norway and Canada.
"Trump's decision to offer up the strategic reserve to
mitigate the fallout helped," said Joe Manimbo, senior market
analyst at Western Union Business Solutions in Washington. "The
situation is still edgy on uncertainty over further attacks and
possible retaliation."
Oil prices had jumped about 20% in reaction to the drone
strikes, which knocked out more than 5% of global oil output.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group claimed responsibility, but
the United States has blamed Tehran. On Sunday, Trump said he had authorized the release of oil
from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) if needed in a
quantity to be determined. He also said Washington was "locked
and loaded" to retaliate for the attacks on the Saudi
facilities. Another factor boosting the greenback was some exiting of
bearish dollar bets in advance of the U.S. Federal Reserve's
two-day policy meeting. Traders widely expect the Fed will cut
interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point this week.
In July, Fed policymakers lowered short-term rates for the
first time since 2008.
"The market wants to short-cover in front of the Fed if the
Fed doesn't cooperate," Schlossberg said.
On the other hand, speculators trimmed their bullish bets on
the dollar, according to the latest data from the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission.
In late U.S. trading, an index that tracks the greenback
against the euro, yen, sterling and three other currencies
.DXY was up 0.39% at 98.641. It touched its lowest level since
Aug. 27 on Friday.
The dollar JPY=EBS was 0.03% lower at 108.070 yen,
recovering from an earlier low of 107.44 during Asian trading.
The greenback CHF=EBS fell to 98.655 Swiss franc before
reversing to trade at 99.285, up 0.29% on the day.
Among currencies tied to oil-exporting countries, the
Norwegian crown NOK=D3 strengthened to 8.9179 per dollar
earlier before retreating to 8.9545, up 0.35% on the day.
The Canadian dollar CAD=D3 rose 0.35% to C$1.3243 after
earlier reaching C$1.3208.
The Russian ruble RUB= was 0.41% higher.
Sterling, which has soared over the past week on growing
investor confidence that a no-deal Brexit is off the table, fell
back from a two-month high to $1.2426 GBP=D3 , down 0.62%. It
was little changed against the euro to 88.55 pence EURGBP=D3 .
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Currency bid prices at 2:47PM (1847 GMT)
Description RIC Last U.S. Close Pct Change YTD Pct High Bid Low Bid
Previous Change
Session
Euro/Dollar EUR= $1.0998 $1.1073 -0.68% -4.11% +1.1091 +1.0994
Dollar/Yen JPY= 108.0700 108.0700 +0.00% -1.99% +108.0900 +107.4800
Euro/Yen EURJPY= 118.85 119.69 -0.70% -5.84% +119.5000 +118.7000
Dollar/Swiss CHF= 0.9928 0.9902 +0.26% +1.16% +0.9939 +0.9866
Sterling/Dollar GBP= 1.2422 1.2500 -0.62% -2.63% +1.2509 +1.2400
Dollar/Canadian CAD= 1.3237 1.3283 -0.35% -2.93% +1.3270 +1.3207
Australian/Doll AUD= 0.6865 0.6877 -0.17% -2.61% +0.6884 +0.6855
Euro/Swiss EURCHF= 1.0919 1.0961 -0.38% -2.98% +1.0964 +1.0913
Euro/Sterling EURGBP= 0.8852 0.8858 -0.07% -1.47% +0.8902 +0.8850
NZ NZD= 0.6343 0.6375 -0.50% -5.57% +0.6391 +0.6343
Dollar/Dollar
Dollar/Norway NOK= 8.9545 8.9860 -0.35% +3.66% +8.9892 +8.9179
Euro/Norway EURNOK= 9.8486 9.9515 -1.03% -0.58% +9.9299 +9.8372
Dollar/Sweden SEK= 9.6625 9.6075 -0.13% +7.79% +9.6918 +9.5968
Euro/Sweden EURSEK= 10.6286 10.6422 -0.13% +3.55% +10.6760 +10.6254
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