KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit opened lower against the US dollar today as mixed United States (US) economic data continued to support the greenback.
At 9 am, the local currency slid to 4.7220/7250 against the greenback from Thursday’s close of 4.7155/7185.
ActivTrades trader Dyogenes Rodrigues Diniz said despite the US gross domestic product (GDP) growing by 2.6 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2022 (Q3 2022), its Core Durable Goods for the month of September came in at -0.5 per cent, below the expectation of 0.2 per cent.
Meanwhile, the European Central Bank raised its interest rate by a further 75 basis points to 1.5 per cent, the highest rate since 2009.
At home, the ringgit was traded mostly lower against a basket of major currencies.
The local note slipped against the British pound to 5.4558/4593 from 5.4516/4551 at Thursday’s close, eased versus the Singapore dollar to 3.3494/3520 from 3.3448/3472 yesterday and depreciated against the Japanese yen at 3.2208/2231 from 3.2194/2219 previously.
However, it rose vis-a-vis the euro to 4.7064/7094 from 4.7334/7364 on Thursday. — Bernama