NEW YORK: Speculators’ net long bets on the US dollar edged higher in the latest week, according to calculations by Reuters and US Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday. The value of the net long dollar position was $20.06 billion for the week ended Dec. 14, up from a net long position of $19.46 billion for the prior week.

US dollar positioning was derived from net contracts of International Monetary Market speculators in the Japanese yen, euro, British pound, Swiss franc, and Canadian and Australian dollars.