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Urgent: U.S. dollar slips on soft data, growth forecast

Xinhua, April 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

The U.S. dollar declined against other major currencies on Tuesday as retail sales data from the country came out weaker than expected and International Monetary Fund lowered U.S. growth forecasts in 2015 and 2016.

In late New York trading, the euro rose to 1.0658 dollars from 1.0569 dollars in the previous session, while the dollar bought 119.39 Japanese yen, lower than 120.07 yen of the previous session. Endite