The U.S. dollar fell on Tuesday as receding fears of a full-blown banking crisis slowed demand for so-called safe haven assets.
But the yen rallied, despite traditionally also being a safe haven, with analysts pointing to a pick-up in flows ahead of the end of Japan's fiscal year on Friday.
The dollar fell as low as 130.51 yen , and was last off 0.29% at 131.2 as the Japanese currency rose. That undid some of the dollar's 0.64% jump against the yen in the previous session, which tracked a large rise U.S. government bond yields."The time of the year - the Japanese fiscal end - I think there are some flows from Japanese repatriating," said Bart Wakabayashi, branch manager at State Street in Tokyo.
"If that's it, it's pretty much a one-off, and then we'll get back to basics, which is essentially following yields."to buy all of failed lender Silicon Valley Bank's deposits and loans, and the fact that no further cracks have emerged in global banking. The euro was last up 0.27% to $1.083. Sterling was 0.31% higher at $1.233, just below a two-month high.
"Markets are just generally a little bit risk-positive … and the default position against that background is that the dollar drifts lower," said Adam Cole, chief currency strategist at RBC Capital Markets.The U.S. dollar index - which gauges the currency against six peers, including the yen - fell 0.19% to 102.56, after a 0.26% drop on Monday.
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