By Michael Kitchen
Corrects the level of the Australian dollar.
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. dollar moved higher Friday during Asian trading hours, as anxiety over weaker-than-expected Chinese trade data sent Asia stocks and U.S. stock index futures lower. The ICE dollar index DXY +0.19% rose to 82.671 from 82.646 late Thursday in North America, while the euro EURUSD -0.2710% fell to $1.2288. The Australian dollar AUDUSD -0.5579% , especially sensitive to growth prospects for its trading partner China, fell almost a full penny to about $1.0526 from its Thursday high of $1.0613. The Japanese yen, which like the dollar tends to rise when the global economic outlook worsens, rose modestly, with the dollar USDJPY -0.1386% easing to ¥78.52 from ¥78.57. The British pound GBPUSD -0.2211% slipped to 1.5619 from $1.5636.
