RTRS: Dollar falls below 82 yen after U.S. jobs data
Oct 8 (Reuters) - The dollar fell to a fresh 15-year low below 82 yen on Friday after a report showed an unexpected drop in U.S. nonfarm payrolls in September, while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent.
The dollar was last at 82.15 on electronic trading platform EBS JPY=EBS JPY= compared with 82.39 prior to the data. It fell as low as 81.93 yen.
The euro rallied sharply against the dollar to $1.3970 EUR=EBS EUR= on EBS, up from the $1.3890 it traded at before the report. (Reporting by Nick Olivari; Editing by James Dalgleish)
