"Retail sales were very disappointing for investors bettingon the recovery story and for euro bulls," said BorisSchlossberg, director of FX research at GFT in New York. "The whole trade in the currency market has been driven bythat recovery," he said, and Wednesday's data belied thoseexpectations. The dollar's uptrend this past year was consistent withsafe-haven flows as a global slowdown accelerated, withinvestors brushing off the country's extreme fiscal weakness.But that support is expected to fade once investors price inthe United States' enormous debt load over the next severalyears. In midday New York trading, the euro fell to session lowsagainst the dollar to $1.3567 EUR=, according to electronictrading platform EBS, but last traded at $1.3618, down 0.2percent on the day The euro earlier hit hit a seven-week highof $1.3722 on EBS. The ICE Futures' dollar index rose 0.2 percent on the dayto 82.440 .DXY, having hit a four-month low of 81.871. The dollar fell earlier to fresh lows after an article inthe Financial Times flagged a risk of the United States losingits top sovereign credit rating. While analysts warned against reading too much into thearticle since the United States has run persistent and growingbudget deficits for years, they said a downgrade would havehuge economic, political and financial implications.

Sterling fell against the dollar after the Bank of Englandsaid it expects anemic UK inflation and the economy to recovermore slowly than previously thought The pound was down 0.6percent on the day at $1.5177 GBP=. The British currency's sharp fall relieved some of theselling pressure on the dollar that had intensified since lastweek's break below key 200-day and 200-week moving averagesupport levels on technical charts.The euro has also broken above similar moving averagesagainst the dollar. GFT's Schlossberg said investors had bought currencies suchas the euro and pound the last few weeks in anticipation of aneconomic rebound. But with the retail sales data, he said therewas now "considerable doubt" in the market that this wouldhappen anytime soon. Meanwhile, the dollar slid 0.8 percent against the yen to95.69 JPY=, a two-week low. Talk about the potential for fundrepatriation flows from Japanese investors related toredemptions and coupon payments on U.S.

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