Dollar at three-month high as payrolls paralysis sets in

The dollar was at three-month high on Friday and world shares headed for their fifth of six weeks of gains, ahead of U.S. jobs data expected to nudge the Federal Reserve towards its first interest rate hike in almost a decade. Bets on a December Fed hike are very much back on following the U.S. central bank's last meeting and the dollar's strength, combined with the highest 2-year U.S. government bond yields since 2011 showed there were high hopes for the jobs numbers. The health of the U.S. job