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TOKYO: The euro attenuated in Asian barter Friday afterwards hopes were abject for US activity abatement to pump up the world's better economy, while a Spanish acclaim appraisement decline had bound appulse on the unit.

The euro fetched $1.2525 and 99.47 yen in Tokyo morning trade, bottomward from $1.2561 and 100.01 yen backward Thursday in New York.

The dollar bought 79.41 yen adjoin 79.58 yen in New York, as Japan revised advancement its January to
March bread-and-butter advance figures, but warned that aerial activity costs were demography a toll.

Fed administrator Ben Bernanke, in affidavit to Congress on Thursday, was adequately upbeat about "moderate" advance in the US abridgement and gave no adumbration of beginning bang measures.

Also Thursday, China's aboriginal aboriginal absorption amount cut in added than three years underscored worries about slowing in the world's number-two economy.

"Rather than be agog about China's easing, markets are acquainted of the accomplished band China treads, and anguish about aloof how bendable the abridgement is," National Australia Coffer said in a note.

"This doesn't acquiesce a accident assemblage on China's easing, but added attention instead."

Europe's advance on absolute its budgetary crisis was not accident as bound as markets would like amidst growing all-embracing calls for action, the coffer said, abacus that a acme after this ages could prove "disappointing."

Adding to eurozone concerns, Fitch Ratings on Thursday bargain Spain's absolute acclaim appraisement by three notches, citation ballooning estimates of the amount of a cyberbanking crisis, blooming debt and deepening recession.