The dollar strengthened against its main rivals in light trading as most markets in Europe and the U.S. were ended in observance of the Good Friday holiday. The greenback USDJPY, +0.16% recently traded at ¥113.08, logging a slight weekly gain after seeing its largest decline against the yen in a month last week. By comparison, the buck traded at ¥112.79 late Thursday in New York. The buck added to its gains after a third estimate of U.S. fourth quarter gross domestic product was revised to show 1.4% growth, up from 1% in a previous reading. The ICE U.S. dollar index DXY, +0.09% a measure of the dollar's strength against a basket of six rivals, rose 0.1% to 96.2770, logging a sixth straight daily gain. In Asia equity trading, Japanese NIK, +0.65% and Chinese SHCOMP, +0.62% shares closed higher, but other markets—including Taiwan, Australia and Korea—were down. The Chinese yuan USDCNY, +0.0706% traded in the onshore market briefly fell to a three-week low at 6.5267 to the dollar, but pared its decline to 6.5204 in recent trade. The euro EURUSD, -0.0537% traded at $1.1170 late Friday, compared with $1.1180 late Thursday, logging its first weekly decline against the greenback in three. The pound GBPUSD, -0.1342% traded at $1.4140 late Friday compared with $1.4146, Thursday. The British currency weakened this week as investors worried that a series of deadly attacks in Brussels would increase the likelihood that the U.K. might vote to leave the European Union — the so-called Brexit scenario. Source: MarketWatch
