The U.S. dollar rose against major currencies in the forex market following the release yesterday of a unique ADP employment report showed 297,000 jobs unrelated to the holdings were added to payrolls in December, rising well above the 100,000 that economists had expected originally. As reported at 2:37 pm (JST) in Tokyo, the U.S. dollar against the euro traded at $ 1.3141, as the continuing debt problems of the eurozone single currency pressure.
Meanwhile, against the Japanese yen, the dollar traded at 83.20 yen, retreating a bit from the 1.5% gain yesterday. The