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TOKYO: The dollar climbed adjoin the euro and yen in Asian barter on Wednesday as better-than-expected US accomplishment abstracts gave the greenback a boost.

The dollar was alteration easily at 80.20 yen in aboriginal Tokyo trade, compared with 80.13 yen backward Tuesday in New York.

On Monday, the US assemblage fell to its everyman akin in added than two months adjoin the yen, trading beneath the psychologically important 80-yen level.

The euro on Wednesday bought $1.3217 and 105.98 yen adjoin $1.3234 and 106.05 yen in New York.

The dollar will acceptable strengthen added adjoin the yen if a US jobs address due after in the day meets bazaar expectations, said Sumino Kamei, chief analyst at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.

The greenback is additionally accepted to abide abiding adjoin the euro until there is added authoritativeness over the aftereffect of a presidential acclamation in France and the bread-and-butter angle in the eurozone, including debt-hit Greece's efforts to rein in its accessible debt, said Stuart Ive, a chief banker at HiFX in Auckland.