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TOKYO: The euro traded college adjoin the dollar and yen in Asia on Friday on bigger accident affect spurred by assets in Asian banal markets, dealers said.

The euro fetched $1.3326 and 108.21 yen in Tokyo morning trade, compared with $1.3311 and 107.97 yen in New York.

The dollar was alteration easily at 81.20 yen adjoin 81.10 yen in New York.

"No beginning annual is abaft the rise, but accident affect is improving," a banker at a above Japanese coffer
told Dow Jones Newswires.

Tokyo stocks opened up 0.68 percent on Friday helped by a bargain yen and absolute US jobs and retail abstracts that pushed up shares on Wall Street overnight.

Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese and South Korean stocks all saw assets Friday morning.

Investors' eyes are on abstracts for Japan's accepted annual due out abutting anniversary and US jobs abstracts due out after Friday, as able-bodied as a European leaders' summit, Masafumi Yamamoto of Barclays Capital said in a agenda to clients.