The dollar was last up 0.65 percent against the euro at $1.1735 EUR= and up 0.21 percent against the yen JPY= at 112.71 JPY=.
The euro was also hurt after the voting in Catalonia fuelled anxiety
over political risk in the euro zone. The crisis could deepen further
if the Catalan regional parliament uses the vote as justification for a
unilateral declaration of independence.
The pan-regional FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3
of leading European companies rose 0.51 percent to close at 1,532.50,
and MSCI's gauge of stock performance in 47 countries .MIWD00000PUS
gained 0.2 percent.
On Wall Street, the three key stock indexes ground higher to record intraday highs.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 152.51 points, or 0.68 percent, to end at 22,557.60. The S&P 500 .SPX gained 9.76 points, or 0.39 percent, to 2,529.12 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 20.76 points, or 0.32 percent, to 6,516.72.
Third-quarter earnings are expected to increase 6.2 percent from a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters research. Excluding energy, earnings growth is estimated at 4.3 percent.
Oil fell as a rise in U.S. drilling and higher output from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries halted a rally that helped prices register their biggest third-quarter gain in 13 years.
U.S. energy companies added oil rigs for the first week in seven and Iraq announced its exports rose slightly in September while OPEC overall boosted output, a Reuters survey showed.
Brent LCOcv1 settled down 67 cents at $56.12 a barrel and U.S. crude CLcv1 fell $1.09 to settle at $50.58.
Benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury notes US10YT=RR fell 3/32 in price to yield 2.3390 percent.
U.S. gold futures GCv1 for December delivery settled down $9 at $1,275.80 per ounce, while copper CMCU3 rose 0.19 percent to $6,493.00 a tonne.
On Wall Street, the three key stock indexes ground higher to record intraday highs.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 152.51 points, or 0.68 percent, to end at 22,557.60. The S&P 500 .SPX gained 9.76 points, or 0.39 percent, to 2,529.12 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 20.76 points, or 0.32 percent, to 6,516.72.
Third-quarter earnings are expected to increase 6.2 percent from a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters research. Excluding energy, earnings growth is estimated at 4.3 percent.
Oil fell as a rise in U.S. drilling and higher output from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries halted a rally that helped prices register their biggest third-quarter gain in 13 years.
U.S. energy companies added oil rigs for the first week in seven and Iraq announced its exports rose slightly in September while OPEC overall boosted output, a Reuters survey showed.
Brent LCOcv1 settled down 67 cents at $56.12 a barrel and U.S. crude CLcv1 fell $1.09 to settle at $50.58.
Benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury notes US10YT=RR fell 3/32 in price to yield 2.3390 percent.
U.S. gold futures GCv1 for December delivery settled down $9 at $1,275.80 per ounce, while copper CMCU3 rose 0.19 percent to $6,493.00 a tonne.
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