LONDON—The dollar bounced off two-week lows on Friday, shrugging off some of the weakness that has set in this month as expectations have grown that the Federal Reserve may not raise interest rates again for some time.
Next week is packed with key monetary policy meetings, including those of the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan.
Meanwhile, data on Thursday that showed a rise in the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits surged to the highest in over 1–1/2 years last week pushed the dollar index down 0.8 percent—its largest one-day fall since the depths of the regional banking crisis in March….