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Urgent: U.S. dollar soars on upbeat nonfarm payrolls

Xinhua, March 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

The U.S. dollar rallied against other major currencies on Friday as the country's nonfarm payroll report came out better than expected.

In late New York trading, the euro fell to 1.0858 dollars from 1.1027 dollars in the previous session, while the dollar bought 120.69 Japanese yen, higher than 120.16 yen of the previous session. Endite