FOREX-Dollar slides as rate cuts priced in; yen falls ahead of BOJ meeting

(Recasts first paragraph, adds new comment, more bullets, updates prices) * Euro hits highest since December 2014 vs yen * Euro rises to 10-day high vs dollar * U.S. dollar index hits 10-day low * Focus on BOJ meeting with new governor * Sweden’s central bank also meeting this week * Fed, ECB meetings loom next week By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters) – The dollar fell to a more than one-week low against major currencies on Monday in generally thin trading, as investors continued to price in interest rate cuts this year by the Federal Reserve after a widely expected rate increase at next week’s policy meeting. The Japanese currency, on the other hand, also struggled amid remarks from new Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda about the need to maintain monetary easing ahead of a closely watched Bank of Japan meeting on Friday. Aside from the Fed, the European Central Bank also meets next…

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