With U.S. and Japanese central banks set to meet this week, a Monday market snapshot showed the dollar gaining against the yen while the DAX 40 and FTSE 100 also rose.
The snapshot, published at 9:31 a.m. ET (13:31 UTC), listed the dollar at 157.441 yen, up 0.3% for the day. Its index readings were 10,753.8 for the FTSE 100, up 0.56%, and 25,436.9 for the DAX 40, up 1.08%.
Earlier Monday, FXStreet quoted the dollar at 157.13 yen at 4:11 a.m. ET (08:11 UTC), as noted in earlier EconoTimes coverage of dollar-yen trading.
Commodity readings were mixed. Gold was up 0.2% at $4,008.85 an ounce, while WTI crude was down 0.66% at $102.46 a barrel. Silver was down 0.36% at $53.742 an ounce.
A separate digital-asset reading at 9:36 a.m. ET (13:36 UTC) put Ether (ETH) at $2,304.16, down 0.97% over 24 hours. Bitcoin (BTC) was $79,611, down 0.74% over the same period.
The Federal Reserve meets Oct. 27-28, with a press conference scheduled for Oct. 28. The Bank of Japan meets Oct. 29-30 and is scheduled to issue its policy statement Oct. 30.
