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The yen rose on Tuesday as growing worries about a deterioration in U.S. credit markets pushed stock prices lower and prompted traders to unwind risky trades financed with the Japanese currency.
"The forex market is tracking the stock market step by step," said Brian Taylor, a senior currency trader at M&T Bank in Buffalo, New York. "Everytime stocks turn lower, it's a sign for investors to buy yen."
The euro [$$EURUSD
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Traders said the yen was inversely tracking the fortunes of stock prices, which fell after mortgage lender American Home Mortgage Investment
Earlier, the dollar had been drifting higher against the yen in a choppy session as investors tracked movements in the U.S. stock market and shrugged off a generally mixed batch of economic data.
At that time, the risk-seeking pushed the Australian [AUD-TN
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] dollars up versus the U.S. currency to U.S.$0.8587 and U.S.$0.7717, respectively.
Sterling [GBP-TN
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