(Reuters) - The dollar held near a 4-1/2-year high on Friday, boosted by a climb in U.S. Treasury yields to a five-year high this week, while investors renewed their appetite for risk and sold the low-yielding yen in carry trades.
Traders awaited U.S. consumer price data later in the day to see if Treasury yields rise further, as well as comments by Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui after a policy meeting at which the central bank held rates at 0.5 percent as widely expected.
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Traders awaited U.S. consumer price data later in the day to see if Treasury yields rise further, as well as comments by Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui after a policy meeting at which the central bank held rates at 0.5 percent as widely expected.
Read more at Reuters Africa
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