Yen Hits 5-Week Low Vs Euro, Sterling Hit
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The yen hit five-week lows versus the  euro on weak Japanese growth data on Wednesday while sterling  fell on Bank of England comments, but the market focus was on  Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony later in the day.
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The yen hovered near a five-week low  against the dollar on Friday after minutes from a U.S. central  bank meeting reinforced expectations that measured rate rises  would continue, and as oil prices closed in on record highs.
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The yen hit a seven-week high against  the euro and held near a one-week peak versus the dollar after  this week's comments by the European Central Bank's chief  economist urging Asia to share the burden of the dollar  weakness.
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The yen touched an 18-month low against  the euro on Monday, slipping with emerging Asian currencies as  traders tried to assess the economic fallout from tsunami waves  that devastated parts of Asia the previous day.
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The dollar hit eight-month lows against  the euro and six-month troughs versus the yen on Monday on  continued worries about the U.S. economy and the yawning trade  deficit, and traders say it could fall even further.   Dealers  said the dollar's outlook against the Japanese currency had  worsened because it dropped below the closely watched 107 yen  level -- the lower end of the five-yen range in which it had  moved for the past five months.
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The dollar dropped to within half a cent of this week's record low against the euro and hit 7-1/2-month lows on the yen on Friday as traders took the view that world finance chiefs would not try to slow the dollar's slide.
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The yen rose to a five-year high against  the dollar on Monday as investors bet next month's meeting of  Group of Seven nations would put more pressure on Asian  countries to let their currencies rise.
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The pound was lower after short-lived gains following the Bank of England's (BoE) decision to keep rates unchanged at 5.50 percent.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average fell 1.13 percent  to hit a five-week closing low on Friday as worries about high  oil prices and uncertainty over the U.S. economic and market  outlook hit a broad range of stocks.
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The pound has staged a late recovery against the euro after slumping to a six-day low against the single European currency.
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The yen held close to the previous  session's four-week high against the dollar on Thursday while  the dollar held steady on the euro as investors awaited U.S.  labor and manufacturing data due later.  The Japanese currency  rose to a high of 109.28 per dollar late on Wednesday, as cross  currents in the market, mainly from a steep sterling fall,  forced yen sellers to buy the Japanese currency back, pushing  it higher against the dollar.
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The dollar traded within half a yen of  five-year lows against the yen but stabilized against the euro  on Thursday, after a record U.S. trade deficit underscored  structural weaknesses in the world's largest economy.
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The dollar fell two thirds of a percent  against the yen to within sight of seven-month lows and edged  toward recent record lows against the euro on Friday as worries  persisted about the U.S. current account deficit.
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The yen was cornered near a six-week low  against the dollar on Wednesday as record-high oil prices  dampened investors' outlook on the Japanese economy ahead of  the Bank of Japan's survey on business sentiment.
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The dollar tumbled to new all-time lows against the euro, a 12-year nadir against sterling and a near five-year trough against the yen, buckling under the weight of the US twin deficits.
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The dollar fell against the yen and traded near a five-week low against the euro after Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig said the US trade deficit will probably widen from a record.
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The dollar fell to a seven-month low against the yen and was within sight of a record low versus the euro on Monday, due in part to market views that Washington is happy