Dollar set for weekly gain, cyber outage unnerves investors LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - The dollar rose in jittery trading on Friday, as a worldwide cyber outage that hit banks, airlines and broadcasters unsettled investors, although volatility in the currency market remained contained. Signs of disruption in one of the world's busiest financial centres emerged as London trade got underwa y. LSEG Group LSEG.L , which runs the London Stock Exchange, suffered an outage that affected user access to some of its products. Risk appetite has recoiled this week, punishing technology stocks in particular, while expectations for a rate cut as early as September from the Federal Reserve ha ve taken a chunk out of the dollar, especially against low-interest rate currencies such as the yen and the Swiss franc. The huge gap between U.S. rates and those in Japan and even in Switzerland has created an opportunity for investors to sell those currencies to fund purch...
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