TOKYO: The dollar held steady in Asia on Thursday after US central bank chief Janet Yellen suggested that a December US interest rate lift-off was still on the table.

In congressional testimony, Yellen said that if the world’s top economy was “performing well” and, if conditions warrant, a rate hike in December “would be a live possibility.”

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