MW: Euro turns up vs. dollar, off decade-low vs. yen
By Deborah Levine
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The euro turned up slightly against the U.S. dollar on Monday and came off a decade-low against the Japanese yen as traders parsed through more comments from officials about Greece. The euro EURUSD +0.40% turned up to $1.3668, from $1.3659 in late North American trading Friday and after falling to $1.3495 during European trading hours. The dollar index DXY -0.11% , which measures the greenback against a basket of six currencies, turned down to 77.118 from 77.175 late Friday. The euro EURJPY +0.13% also recovered from as buying as little as 103.88 yen, its lowest level since mid-2001. It lately traded at ¥106.02, a decline of 1.6% from Friday.
