The higher-risk currencies’ recent trend of strength continued on Friday night, with sentiment surging on better-than-expected US non-farm payrolls data.
The encouraging jobs data helped the pound, Kiwi and Aussie gain, with the Australian dollar finishing the session up 0.7% to 77.27 yen and up 0.6% to 91.66 US cents.
The euro exchange rate gained slightly against the greenback, but was a tad weaker versus the yen.