Dollar briefly adds to decline vs yen after US jobs data
Updates to 8:45 a.m.
By Caroline Valetkevitch
NEW YORK, July 5 (Reuters) -The dollar briefly extended declines against the Japanese yen on Friday after data showed U.S. job growth slowed in June, albeit to a still-healthy pace, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.1%.
Againstthe Japanese yen <JPY=EBS>,the dollar was last down 0.22% at 160.89.
The dollar index =USD, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies including the yen and the euro, fell 0.2% to 104.95.
Nonfarm payrolls increased by 206,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its closely watched employment report on Friday. Data for May was revised sharply down to show 218,000 jobs added instead of the previously reported 272,000.
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Additional reporting by Iain Withers, Editing by Anil D'Silva and Chizu Nomiyama
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