RTRS: Dollar falls 1 pct vs yen after soft US jobs data
Dec 3 (Reuters) - The dollar slumped more than 1 percent versus the yen and extended losses versus the euro on Friday after data showed U.S. employment increased far less than expected in November and the jobless rate jumped to a seven-month high of 9.8 percent.
For details on jobs data, see [ID:nN02238002]
The dollar hit as low as 82.83 yen on trading platform EBS was last at 83.04 yen JPY=. Before the release of the data, the dollar was around 83.01 yen.
The euro was last at $1.3264 EUR=, up 0.3 percent on the day, compared with $1.3248 before the data. (Reporting by Wanfeng Zhou; Editing by W Simon )
