TOKYO: The dollar on Friday hovered around two-month highs on the yen and rose against a string of emerging currencies ahead of US jobs data that could support the case for a December interest rate hike.

The Labor Department’s October employment report was expected to show job growth strengthened to 181,000 new payrolls from September’s paltry 142,000 reading.

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